as in seminar
a meeting featuring a group discussion
recently attended a daylong symposium on new methods of chromatography
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Recent Examples of symposium
The Born to Run symposium comes during a heightened period of legacy-building for Springsteen in advance of next month’s Bruce biopic, Deliver Me From Nowhere.
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Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2025
Last month's Beef Country Beef Conference at the Taylor County Expo Center featured an array of topics for cattle producers — not the least of which was the topic that led the day-long symposium.
—Ronald W. Erdrich, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
Springsteen’s appearance at the symposium hadn’t been guaranteed, but his active, open participation on the panels was delightful and a little astonishing.
—Caryn Rose, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
And Powell also nodded to that possibility in his keynote speech last month at the Kansas City Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
—Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
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Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2025
Last month's Beef Country Beef Conference at the Taylor County Expo Center featured an array of topics for cattle producers — not the least of which was the topic that led the day-long symposium.
—Ronald W. Erdrich, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
Springsteen’s appearance at the symposium hadn’t been guaranteed, but his active, open participation on the panels was delightful and a little astonishing.
—Caryn Rose, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
And Powell also nodded to that possibility in his keynote speech last month at the Kansas City Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
—Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for symposium
Noun
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Both are also mandated to attend a parenting seminar within 60 days of the divorce filing.—
Sean Mandell,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Shrek The Third director Raman Hui, Elvis producer Schuyler Weiss and top execs from leading Japanese broadcasters Nippon TV and TBS are among the speakers set for the seminar program at this year’s TIFFCOM contents market in Tokyo.—
Liz Shackleton,
Deadline,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There is a conference committee on many of the appropriations bills right now.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2025
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Lewis built a conference room stocked with a long table and six chairs, a projector and screen, and a door for privacy.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Freep.com,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Little Rock Board of Directors must confirm Buchanan's reappointment to the panel, which would be for a five-year term that expires in September 2030.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Sep. 2025
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Landau said during opening remarks at a panel discussing asylum and migration reform alongside representatives from Kosovo, Bangladesh, Panama and Liberia.—
Mariam Khan,
ABC News,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Symposium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/symposium. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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