hash out
phrasal verb
hashed out; hashing out; hashes out
US, informal
1
or hash over
: to talk about (something) : discuss (something)
The detectives hashed out their theories about who committed the murder.
They've spent quite a bit of time hashing over the problem.
We need to sit down and hash things out.
2
: to find (a solution) by talking
Their lawyers hashed out a resolution.
3
: to solve (a problem) by talking
We were finally able to hash out our differences.
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So Martinez and her husband hunkered down for six hours in the ferry parking lot, waiting for the storm to pass while hashing out a plan to sell their 1920s home in California, move across the country with their two daughters, and modernize the 1807 house before the next school year—no small feat.
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Jennifer Fernandez, Architectural Digest, 20 Jan. 2025
Right-wing opponents of the move began organizing to oppose ratification even before negotiators had finished hashing out the terms of the agreement.
—Aaron Coy Moulton / Made By History, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
Trump has largely avoided laying out any specific terms or demands for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, rather promising to leverage his personal relationship with Putin and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to hash out a deal acceptable to both.
—Colin Meyn, The Hill, 31 Dec. 2024
Johnstone arrived at the team's first brainstorming session with his own pseudo-PowerPoint presentation to hash out exactly what worked with M3GAN.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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Jennifer Fernandez, Architectural Digest, 20 Jan. 2025
Right-wing opponents of the move began organizing to oppose ratification even before negotiators had finished hashing out the terms of the agreement.
—Aaron Coy Moulton / Made By History, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
Trump has largely avoided laying out any specific terms or demands for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, rather promising to leverage his personal relationship with Putin and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to hash out a deal acceptable to both.
—Colin Meyn, The Hill, 31 Dec. 2024
Johnstone arrived at the team's first brainstorming session with his own pseudo-PowerPoint presentation to hash out exactly what worked with M3GAN.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Hash out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hash%20out. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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