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- verb Present participle of
palaver .
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Examples
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In the palavering over the Greece bailout, an obstacle was the European Central Bank's insistence that nothing be done that might allow the ratings agencies to declare that Greece had defaulted on its debts—or at least not until the bank received taxpayer guarantees for its own holdings of Greek debt.
Who Elected the Rating Agencies? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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So now you see Big Chief Wagon-Captain, standing before a party of assorted nomads, palavering away with a few halting Sioux phrases, but Wootton translating most of the time, while I nodded, stern but compassionate.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Lord, what a mess of meetings and palavering and influence-peddling and horse trading and litigation there's gonna be!
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Even routine tasks like paying utility bills can become timesinks, until you learn to slow down and savor the moment, palavering with acquaintances and strangers who might merit no more than a nod in a former life.
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Even routine tasks like paying utility bills can become timesinks, until you learn to slow down and savor the moment, palavering with acquaintances and strangers who might merit no more than a nod in a former life.
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Two of the key symptoms are palavering and inaction.
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Yeah zoee …your palavering about cakes with raisins make me hungry as well!
Humans are really, really, really tiny | ultraorange.net 2008
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So now Pyongyang has what it wants, and Washington has a vague, inadequate invitation to more verification palavering.
Bush's North Korea Surrender Will Have Lasting Consequences 2008
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Give my kind regards to Sir Joseph and Mr. Greville; and if they should think that I have paid too little attention to natural objects, you may mention that I had forty men and forty-two asses to look after, besides the constant trouble of packing and weighing bundles, palavering with the
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008
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Ragnar got on the radio and began palavering with the captain in Grimlandic.
clairity commented on the word palavering
talking unproductively and at length
February 18, 2019