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confer as in: confer with her coach
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The doctors conferred and then recommended a plan of action.
conferred = met to talk something over
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We conferred about a plan of action.conferred = talked
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Frederick Douglas was greatly respected and was conferred with by both President Lincoln and President Andrew Johnson.conferred = met with for discussion
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Again the noise, this time close to the door, and it occurred to me that it was probably the boys coming to confer with me. (source)confer = talk about something
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Banks of fluorescent lights hung down eighteen inches above the slanted, glass-topped desks where men wearing green eyeshades conferred over stacks of copy and photographs. (source)conferred = discussed things
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On day six, when a plane flew by, the remaining men had to confer to be sure that it was real. (source)confer = discuss the issue
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"Often, he comes to school without breakfast," and the crowd of women was conferring again. (source)conferring = discussing the issue
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The FOREMAN confers briefly with him. (source)confers = has a conference in order to talk something over
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Miss Caroline and I had conferred twice already, and they were looking at me in the innocent assurance that familiarity breeds understanding. (source)conferred = talked
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And it was generally known that he kept a pair of pistols hidden behind a panel in his office, so that when an incident occurred, seconds could confer in privacy, carriages could be summoned, and the feuding parties could be whisked away with weapons in hand. (source)confer = talk
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The newly elected chairman of the board of Westing Paper Products Corporation, Julian R. Eastman, announced from London where he is conferring with European management that earnings from all divisions are expected to double in the next quarter. (source)conferring = meeting for discussion
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Or as something exquisitely said confers authority?† (source)
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Hazel and his friends conferred. (source)conferred = talked
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One of the workers raises his hand, and an Official comes down from his perch to confer with the worker. (source)confer = talk
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confer as in: confer an honorary degree
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Harvard conferred an honorary degree upon Booker T. Washington.
conferred = gave
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The university conferred an honorary degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated.
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Congressional Space Medals of Honor were conferred posthumously to all fourteen crew members lost in the Space Shuttle disasters.conferred = given
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But with the greatest pleasure, I come to confer upon her a position as our second pianist. (source)confer = bestow or give
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It made any Jew at the Battle School dream of being Strategos, and conferred prestige on him from the start. (source)conferred = bestowed or gave
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The King was reported to have paused during a stroll in Kew Gardens to express his "great satisfaction" with the report of General Howe, upon whom he was to confer the Order of Bath. (source)confer = bestow or give
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It is Harvard which, first among New England colleges, confers an honorary degree upon a black man. (source)confers = gives (an honor)
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In one respect it was better, as it gave him the means of conferring a kindness where he wished to oblige. (source)conferring = giving
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It conferred power upon me. (source)conferred = bestowed or gave
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The growth is so thick and matted that even the wind does not move it, but it is the moonlight that seems to confer stillness upon it. (source)confer = bestow or give
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Upon seeing a formally set table, one knows instinctively that the seat at the head is more desirable than those along the sides—because it inevitably confers upon its occupant an appearance of power, importance, and legitimacy. (source)
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...and she would not allow herself to shew half the displeasure she felt, because he had been conferring an obligation, which no want of delicacy on his part could make a trifle to her. (source)conferring = giving
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He had casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood. (source)conferred = given
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He can confer titles of nobility and give out an immense number of church honors. (source)confer = bestow or give
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