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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of powwow.

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Examples

  • The activists often powwowed at the apartment — and consoled themselves there on the night of Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election.

    Across Lennon's New York Universe 2010

  • I seriously wondered if my teachers had powwowed in their lounge that morning and decided to have a contest for who could whip out the most boring lesson ever.

    Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010

  • I seriously wondered if my teachers had powwowed in their lounge that morning and decided to have a contest for who could whip out the most boring lesson ever.

    Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010

  • I seriously wondered if my teachers had powwowed in their lounge that morning and decided to have a contest for who could whip out the most boring lesson ever.

    Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010

  • I seriously wondered if my teachers had powwowed in their lounge that morning and decided to have a contest for who could whip out the most boring lesson ever.

    Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010

  • On a sunny morning earlier this week, he powwowed with other activists, tapped messages into his Apple iPhone on the status of protest marches, and read over remarks ahead of a news conference.

    Tibetan Youth Challenge Beijing -- and Dalai Lama 2008

  • The Standard's stylish urbanity is a goof on the visions of long-dead tycoons, who once powwowed next door at the elite California Club and who built this part of town -- which, with its formal brand of sleek corporate modernism, is irrelevant to the culture of pink stucco and palm trees that we think of when we think of Los Angeles.

    L.A. Rising 2007

  • In midafternoon regimental and division commanders powwowed with Byrne and his company captains alongside his Humvee in the desert.

    Five Days in Fallujah 2004

  • In midafternoon regimental and division commanders powwowed with Byrne and his company captains alongside his Humvee in the desert.

    Five Days in Fallujah 2004

  • “About eight this morning Radovic powwowed with two bikers right over there and got sliced up.”

    Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987

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