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He also was impressed with the attention to detail on the set, like on the day when Taylor asked how Mary Lincoln would enter a room where Lincoln and Stanton were conferring.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024

The meeting means the lawyers were conferring with a Gubarev confidant who had supplied dossier information to Mr. Danchenko.

From Washington Times • Nov. 7, 2021

Police and intelligence officials were conferring Wednesday on how to handle possible violence due to the start of the workplace virus mandate and the twin demonstrations.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2021

“They were conferring over lunch in a restaurant near the China-Vietnam border when several men speaking Chinese ordered them into a car,” Wang’s daughter, Ti-Anna Wang, recounted in a Post op-ed.

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2016

She hastened toward the two gentlemen, and smiled as if she were conferring a favor.

From Dorothy Dainty at the Mountains by Brooks, Amy