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pourparler

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Definition of pourparler

as in consultancy

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Cezar Gheorghe, founder of grain consultancy firm Agricolumn, told the AP that the drone incidents have not negatively impacted trade at Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanta.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026
But with every consultancy now making the same promise, getting AI into production has become a baseline expectation rather than a prize.

— Ciaran Cosgrave, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of consultancy

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The European Composer and Songwriter Alliance helps fill that gap, uniting national associations to lobby policymakers and guide young composers through contracts and negotiations.

— Ben Croll, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
Trade negotiations between the United States and Mexico have reached an impasse after months of talks between officials about a deal to reduce duties on critical imports from beyond the southern border.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of negotiation

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Sam Carlin, Local 952 union representative, said bargaining with the county has been ongoing for months.

— Julie Sharp, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
During the last bargaining session, Eric Johnson, president of the Hialeah Association of Firefighters Local 1102, warned that staffing levels are already thin.

— Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of bargaining

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His method is often to approach cultural or political phenomena, progressive or reactionary, with a mix of Gen X irony and sincere moralism which, by degrees, subtly shifts the frame of the discourse to the right.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
The intricacies of their discourse and society might be unfilmable, or at least, not many have tried to represent it in full.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of discourse

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One supervisor gave a brief disquisition on the history of corporate personhood, how it was created from a headnote in an 1886 Supreme Court case.

— Dan Kaufman, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2026
Recently, at a candidates forum outside Dallas, Larry Brock expressed the following sentiments as part of a lengthy disquisition on the Muslim faith.

— Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2026

Definition of disquisition

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And though their scenes together are way too brief, the Older and Younger Elliott bull sessions give the movie both a spiky-humor rush and a sense of genuine grounding.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
The newspaper’s staff won the Pulitzer for breaking news for a series of stories on a secret audio recording that exposed Los Angeles City Council members scheming in a crass and racist bull session about political power in the city.

— Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023

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