as in seminar
a meeting featuring a group discussion
a round-robin to discuss the epidemic of performance-enhancing drugs plaguing professional sports
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Recent Examples of round-robin
The other two coaches in a round-robin tournament will be Pete Carroll of the Raiders and Sean Payton of the Broncos.
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Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Researchers had 39 participants engage in a round-robin speed-dating experiment.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
This is when fans can submit ticket applications for individual group-stage matches (the tournament’s opening round in which groups of teams face off round-robin–style before the teams with the best records advance to the single-elimination knockout-round bracket).
—Meredith Heil Bock, AFAR Media, 8 Sep. 2025
In April, World Sevens held its first event in Estoril, Portugal, which featured two days of round-robin group play among eight teams followed by a single-day knockout tournament.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Researchers had 39 participants engage in a round-robin speed-dating experiment.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
This is when fans can submit ticket applications for individual group-stage matches (the tournament’s opening round in which groups of teams face off round-robin–style before the teams with the best records advance to the single-elimination knockout-round bracket).
—Meredith Heil Bock, AFAR Media, 8 Sep. 2025
In April, World Sevens held its first event in Estoril, Portugal, which featured two days of round-robin group play among eight teams followed by a single-day knockout tournament.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for round-robin
Noun
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Zhao also wants to improve the office’s community engagement and hold workshops and seminars to ensure people understand property tax laws.—
Grace Hase,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
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In 2024, Havens and Christopher Celenza, Dean of Johns Hopkins’ Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, hosted a virtual seminar on the history of misinformation.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Rull said her boss, Cutié, also didn’t know how the $150,000 for the rodeo and the mayors’ symposium was added to Aviation’s budget.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
17 Oct. 2025
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Sulwhasoo’s research with Johns Hopkins University is ongoing, and the company will continue to host the symposium annually to unveil additional research.—
Emily Burns,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The skepticism surrounding Salesforce’s Agentforce, its platform with agentics and virtual robots to augment your business, is growing thinner after CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote to kick off the company’s annual Dreamforce conference.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
19 Oct. 2025
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The Bruins haven’t won a conference championship since 1998 and haven’t posted a 10-win season in more than a decade.—
Chris Vannini,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
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Kennedy fired the panel’s previous members in June and appointed new ones, many of whom have expressed skepticism about Covid vaccines.—
Erika Edwards,
NBC news,
16 Oct. 2025
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Their panel examines how period dramas blend fact and fiction.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Round-robin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/round-robin. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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