How to Use compare notes in a Sentence

compare notes

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  • The two authors meet here for the first time, and compare notes on craft and consequence.
    Seija Rankin, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Melvin can compare notes with new-age thinker Ted Lasso.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Had the chance today to compare notes with @AmiadCohen on this noble mission.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Bonham Carter was, no doubt, happy for the chance to compare notes on her tricky subject.
    Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Meanwhile, on Friday night, the coaches will be able to compare notes before the game.
    Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The project’s three linguists met recently to compare notes.
    Alex Carp, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Then the client obtained the neighbors’ inspection reports, too, just to compare notes.
    Alyssa Shelasky, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The system’s members have taken to social media to compare notes or share their maps.
    Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The twosome who had grown up as childhood friends, would compare notes — and offer each other support.
    Michelle Tauber, PEOPLE.com, 15 July 2021
  • And others who have recovered are eager to compare notes.
    Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Judge said Cole would occasionally ask him after an at-bat about his thought process to compare notes.
    James Wagner, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Western Hills teachers told how their pupils enjoyed the one-on-one attention from their tutors and liked to compare notes on where their tutors live.
    Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Online, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The drama heats up later in the evening, when Deb and Valerie finally compare notes on how their love triangle is faring.
    Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 26 July 2022
  • Ladies at canasta tables now compare notes on their favorite cannabis tinctures.
    Ellen McCarthy, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2022
  • The team meets weekly to compare notes, share insights and learn from local economists and appraisers.
    Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Even then, the court observers come together in debriefing sessions to compare notes.
    Katie Mettler, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
  • It’s been tradition to meet up with others, compare notes before the gun and head off into making more history.
    Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Each friend measures the particle, each Wigner measures the friend measuring the particle, and the two Wigners compare notes.
    George Musser, Science | AAAS, 17 Aug. 2020
  • For Nairn and Andrzejewski, training provides more time to compare notes on Ocean City, the great seafood back home and even some occasional smack talk.
    Glenn Graham, baltimoresun.com, 25 Aug. 2020
  • More than a dozen industry lobbyists paced the marble floors of the capitol rotunda, huddling to compare notes on how lawmakers planned to vote.
    Kenneth P. Vogel, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Bernard also recommends joining a support group as a way to share experiences and compare notes with others.
    Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2020
  • But his victims eventually find one another, compare notes and unite under the banner of revenge.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The two longtime mutual admirers compare notes on film adaptation, wrangling ensemble casts and why nerves are sometimes the best sign.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Over many years, Wainwright and Scherzer have not only become friends who compare notes about pitching or opponents but are rivals in fantasy football, against each other on the mound and, most fiercely, at the plate.
    James Wagner, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The experience of taking the cultural leap from Fox to Disney gave them plenty of chances to commiserate and compare notes on adjusting to the new world order together.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 15 June 2022
  • Still, trying to compare notes with previous eruptions involves delving into centuries-old records, some from a time when photography did not exist.
    NBC News, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Moscow has bristled at demands for an investigation, saying that Germany needs to share medical data in the case or compare notes with Russian doctors.
    Mike Corder, Star Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Despite the many limits and few people, this turned out to be a priceless excursion, a chance to examine our expectations and compare notes on diversity and privilege, among other things.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Azar is ostensibly in Taipei to compare notes on the coronavavirus — and the flailing US could certainly use some advice from a government that masterminded one of the world's most competent responses to the pandemic.
    Stephen Collinson With Caitlin Hu, CNN, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Children-Friendly Municipality Initiative are a good place to compare notes and share best practice knowledge.
    Carmen Niethammer, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021

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