How to Use confab in a Sentence

confab

noun
  • This week’s Davos confab is sure to be more sobering than most.
    — Jennifer Duggan, Time, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Signs indicate the confab and fest are not yet back at full strength.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 23 July 2025
  • Many other pols are poised to speak at the party confab, the state party said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Even the city’s annual hedge fund confab gives off a new vibe this election season.
    — Michael Smith, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Reid was announced to speak at this year's confab last November.
    — Andy Gensler, Billboard, 19 May 2017
  • Matrone caught sight of their confab and watched the two men in worried conversation.
    — Joshua Hammer, GQ, 26 July 2017
  • That's the theme of this bizarre confab soon to roll into Los Angeles.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2011
  • But the peak moments came and went, often within a phrase or two, a confab that felt short-circuited at times.
    — Martin Wisckol, Orange County Register, 11 June 2017
  • But what was clear from the outset was that the Swiss confab wasn’t going to move the needle either way.
    — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2024
  • This year, not so much, my colleague Tara Bannow reports from the confab.
    — Bob Herman, STAT, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The question of who knew what, and when, has been raised at these confabs, according to people with knowledge of them.
    — Joe Pompeo, The Hive, 7 Dec. 2017
  • Here are the big stories—and the big absences—from the last 24 hours at gaming's biggest confab.
    — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 12 June 2019
  • The confab comes as the iPhone maker's stock is on a roll, up more than 20% since the end of March.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 7 June 2026
  • The vice president will not be in New York for the diplomatic confab.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The action takes place in the fictional Vista Al Mar comics confab.
    — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2023
  • This was Roth-Con, a confab of Philip stans in the belly of Rothlandia.
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The confab brought blue state, red state and swing state GOP leaders together.
    — Zac Anderson, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Still, some of the tensions underlying the global confab weren't hard to detect.
    — Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018
  • Many insiders had expected to screen the first episode — what had been a common practice for new shows at the pop culture confab.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2017
  • At some point during the powwow, a player interrupted the confab with a stupid question.
    — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Here are some key issues to watch for at the GOP confab, which lasts until Sunday.
    — Alexei Koseff, sacbee, 4 May 2018
  • 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
  • Vance was the top choice for 61% of the nearly 1,000 people surveyed at last year’s confab.
    — Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The company is projecting a nightly rate of $163 for this week’s confab.
    — Lori Weisberg, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 July 2017
  • To be fair, this confab seems to have become Roshomon-like, according to Werner Krauss.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2011
  • 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
  • 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
  • Derbez was speaking at the ongoing Iberseries confab in Madrid, Spain.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
  • After the confab, Tillerson will fly to Turkey, where the Syria plan is likely to be raised as well.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 7 July 2017
  • Seeing everyone crammed into his office for a howdy-host confab looks like the coolest family get-together.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026

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