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“Once a weapon is used in battle, and once it shows itself to confer an advantage, it becomes much more difficult for countries to give that up,” Jenkins said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Different types of workouts also confer their own benefits when it comes to health and weight maintenance.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

That’s why older first-time parents should confer with their own parents to tackle the “who’s going to take care of you?” question.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

They confer the same economic and legal ownership, dividend and governance rights as their underlying shares.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

And in doing so, we overlook how those same groupings confer advantage.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Our hypermasculine era has already championed testosterone as a buzzword—an elixir that confers virility, confidence and power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

At the heart of the case is the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, which confers citizenship on anyone “born … in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Consequently, the clause confers on Congress especially broad authority over state electoral systems and makes judicial second-guessing of legislation designed to ensure equal representation for all particularly improper.

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026

The fact that they’re already in the S&P MidCap 400, however, confers a potential advantage over companies not in that smaller index, Roberts noted.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 6, 2026

“All right, everybody, let’s open our books, because science confers power on anyone who takes the trouble to learn it.”

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

Mr. Kidd describes this as “a spectacular breach of conventional academic protocol,” especially as the dons conferred unopposed—on the same day—an honorary degree on Alessandro Pertini, the 88-year-old Italian president.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

It’s clear they also wanted to maintain the impunity conferred by America’s superpower status.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

Furthermore, she wrote, Puig went into the bathroom with defense lawyers and possibly conferred about the case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

In February 2023, the local authority issued care proceedings on the basis that the girls were "beyond parental control" and conferred parental responsibility onto their birth parents.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

He simply handed the matter to his superiors, who conferred with their equivalents at Deutsche Bank, and finally agreed to wire over $600 million.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Gulf states aren’t the only ones conferring with the White House.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Other newfangled ways of accessing private markets have also crept onto investors’ radar in recent years, including digital stock tokens designed to mirror a company’s share-price performance without conferring actual ownership rights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

"After conferring with the league office, because Lamar didn't take starter reps in practice, we updated our report to reflect his practice participation," the Ravens said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

After conferring with colleagues, the agent walked Minguela back toward his delivery van.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

He saw Chess and Emma conferring in whispers ahead of him.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix