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Idiom

compare notes

Meaning

To exchange information and ideas about related experiences.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“Let's compare notes after the meeting.”

“After the exam, the students gathered in the library to compare notes on the most difficult questions.”

“The researchers decided to compare notes regarding their recent findings, hoping that sharing their data would reveal a pattern they had previously overlooked.”

Examples

simple

“Let's compare notes after the meeting.”

contextual

“After the exam, the students gathered in the library to compare notes on the most difficult questions.”

complex

“The researchers decided to compare notes regarding their recent findings, hoping that sharing their data would reveal a pattern they had previously overlooked.”

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