How to Use palaver in a Sentence
palaver
noun- Enough of this palaver. We have a lot to discuss.
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More partisan palaver, far from courageous, far from laudable.
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Logan Jenkins,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
18 Aug. 2017
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Too often the book gets bogged down in the same kind of narcissistic palaver Daum derides.
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Rosa Brooks,
Washington Post,
24 Oct. 2019
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All the palaver over a new stadium, though, can be shelved until the Bears’ season is officially over.
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Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
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The likely political purpose of this palaver is to make personal taxes—the kind voters care deeply about—easier to raise in short order.
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Joseph C. Sternberg,
WSJ,
3 June 2021
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Perhaps one upside of the palaver is that Radnor residents have become more politically engaged.
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New York Times,
30 June 2021
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That the palaver was enough to promptly warrant Congressional hearings is testament to just how removed the investing public is from today’s market mechanics.
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Roya Wolverson,
Quartz,
18 Feb. 2021
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