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  • verb Present participle of confab.

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Examples

  • So again, more confabbing going on about art and writing and entitlement and imagery, and, well, the usual.

    more thinking. 2009

  • I had a long snarky post planned about mixed race people of color and how 'mixed race' is so often (always?) assumed to mean 'part white' after confabbing about mixed race Black and Asian folks yesterday.

    about emmett till 2009

  • OK so after confabbing on the phone and online and reading over various post wiscon-threads I really need to wonder: what the hell is this fixation on how POC should never express anger?

    oh, wow. free verse dinocorns. aichildlit 2009

  • Cubans are increasingly confabbing about reform while we sideline ourselves from the conversation.

    Rep. Mike Honda: Political Grandstanding in US Prevents Economic Opportunity in Cuba 2010

  • Then, leaving him with his mouth gaping open, she walked away from him and Tahira and joined Maria, who was closest to the confabbing exec board.

    Pure Sin Kate Brian 2010

  • A Photoshopped Sad Keanu suddenly began confabbing with Queen Elizabeth, storming the beaches of Normandy, picnicking with a bear.

    Best of 2010: Internet memes Monica Hesse 2010

  • It was a damned rum business, when you think of it, a quiet little town being held up by a gang of fanatics to no apparent purpose; the two sides taking pot shots and confabbing by turns, and folk going about their business a stone's throw away.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • It came down to Scott and -- with Kara and Paula cheering Scott on and Simon and Randy confabbing -- there was no surprise when Simon said that two judges thought Scott should stay and two thought he should go.

    Michael Giltz: American Idol -- Top 8: Allison Gets (Some) Respect 2009

  • And libertarians will keep sharing their ideas and confabbing with everyone, which is as it should be.

    I’ll See Your New Deal and Raise You an Ownership Society 2006

  • According to the LWC/NYC website, it's "a three-day conference for fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction writers learning how to maneuver in the marketplace" -- an opportunity for learning, networking, and confabbing for writers.

    Link-Mad Wednesday Book Nerd 2007

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