How to Use confab in a Sentence

confab

noun

• This was Roth-Con, a confab of Philip stans in the belly of Rothlandia.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• This week’s Davos confab is sure to be more sobering than most.
  — Jennifer Duggan, Time, 15 Jan. 2023
• New Nordic Films’ confab in Haugesund, which runs Aug 23-26.
  — Annika Pham, Variety, 24 Aug. 2022
• The action takes place in the fictional Vista Al Mar comics confab.
  — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2023
• The confab marks the CW’s return to the venue for the first time in two years after the coronavirus pandemic scuttled most mass events.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022
• Even the city’s annual hedge fund confab gives off a new vibe this election season.
  — Michael Smith, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024
• The event has done the one thing such confabs are supposed never to do, which is expose the truth about climate change and the race to net-zero carbon emissions.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
• One report suggests that Xi was injured by a chair hurled during a fractious confab of CCP princelings.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Oct. 2022
• VidCon also has opened ticket sales for the 2023 Anaheim confab, with more info at this link.
  — Variety, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
• McCarthy emerged from the White House confab with optimistic lines about the potential for common ground.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Feb. 2023
• At the party, Aric is on the phone trying to get everyone into the party while Issa and Quoia confab over text.
  — Cate Young, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2021
• From a crassly political posture, the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s confab is a must-have booking for most of the field.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 23 June 2023
• Expect more of this gamesmanship in the run-up to this autumn’s global climate confab in Scotland.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 July 2021
• But behind the the glitz and glamor, this year’s confab is expected to strike a particularly dour tone.
  — Min Jeong Lee, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2023
• There was a bit of gamesmanship ahead of the confab with the U.S. announcing hefty tariffs against a host of G7 countries, before suspending them.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 4 June 2021
• Among the speakers at this two-day confab are rabbis, therapists, mystics and scholars.
  — Iris Dorbian, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• Lisa Renee Jones, romance author and founder of the event, said her goal was to test the appetite for a romance-centric confab before going bigger.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023
• The Thursday morning confab was just the second formal sit-down between Hogan and Scott since the mayor took office in December.
  — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 13 May 2021
• Now in its seventh year, the confab combines two days of live events at London’s Business Design Centre, and four more days of online streaming.
  — Nick Holdsworth, Variety, 26 Nov. 2021
• The annual Alpine confab for heads of state, titans of industry, and people who give TED talks is happening this week.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2023
• Broadly speaking though, delegates attending the three-day confab said the state had lost its way and many wanted California to return to the days of the past.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• Despite that, or perhaps because of it, another anti-vax confab was slated to hit the state this past weekend.
  — Adam Gold, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2021
• That distinction belongs to the confab between the Misses Pattons.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2021
• The scene comes early in the first episode of The Crown’s fourth season: a drawing-room confab between two of the most powerful people in the world, a veteran ruler and an upstart newcomer.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2020
• That’s the overriding message from last week’s theater owner confab in Las Vegas.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
• Its coveted new phone never had a presence at any of these industry confabs.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
• And voting is already underway among the 3,200 attendees taking part at the confab in Dallas.
  — Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 10 July 2021
• For the second year in a row, the annual nerdery confab in San Diego is forgoing an in-person event and instead holding a series of online panels.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 23 July 2021
• For the first time in the confab's 55-year history, a health care company executive will deliver the main keynote.
  — Dan Patterson, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2022
• Key themes at the confab include reaching kids globally across digital screens and platforms, diversity in story-telling, and the rise of AI, some of which Naito spoke to.
  — Liza Foreman, Variety, 14 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024