* Formal: The committee spent hours conferring on the best course of action.
* Informal: We were conferring over coffee, trying to solve the puzzle.
* With a specific action: The doctor conferred with the nurse, conferring on the patient's progress.
* As a noun: The conferring of the award took place at the annual gala.
You can also use "conferring" in the past tense ("conferred") or the present participle ("conferring") to express different actions or states of being.
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