How to Use keynote speaker in a Sentence
keynote speaker
noun- Senator Williams was the keynote speaker at the convention.
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Biden was the keynote speaker at the same event in 2017.
—Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 13 July 2022
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Booker was the keynote speaker for the event last year.
—Katie Ross Dominick, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2019
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Dee Koch will serve as the keynote speaker for the luncheon.
—Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle, 1 Dec. 2019
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The keynote speaker for the event is Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum.
—Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2020
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As the event’s keynote speaker, Yara Shahidi was at the center of it all.
—Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2022
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The Oscar winner was the keynote speaker at the event, held Aug. 10.
—Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 10 Aug. 2024
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Who will be the keynote speaker at the next Darwin awards banquet?
—Pat Myers, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
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To wrap the forum, the audience heard from Abrams, who was the keynote speaker.
—Donna M. Owens, Essence, 17 June 2019
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In June, Rodgers was the keynote speaker at a convention for psychedelics.
—Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
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Gore joined Tuesday night via Zoom as the keynote speaker.
—Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2022
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Greg Miller, who has birded in all 50 states and much of Canada, is the keynote speaker.
—Jessi Virtusio, Post-Tribune, 2 May 2018
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The keynote speaker at the event was Congressman John Lewis.
—refinery29.com, 5 June 2018
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Vance’s presence as the keynote speaker is a statement in and of itself.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2025
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The keynote speaker is Joe Haney, who lives in Manchester with wife, Heather.
—Jesse Leavenworth, Courant Community, 25 May 2018
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A week earlier, Mike Pence had been a keynote speaker and Trump was not on the program at all.
—Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
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The event’s keynote speaker will be selected by Booth and shared at a later date.
—Joe Taschler, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2022
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The conference keeps getting postponed due to the no-show of its keynote speaker.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
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The event's keynote speaker was former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
—CBS News, 9 Oct. 2021
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He was scheduled to be the keynote speaker on March 24 at an event hosted by the group in Naples, Florida.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2025
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That ratio has improved; in 2019 four of the nine keynote speakers were women.
—Washington Post, 16 July 2019
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That ratio has improved; in 2019, four of the nine keynote speakers were women.
—Mae Anderson, The Denver Post, 21 July 2019
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Gomez and her mom Mandy Teefey are co-founders of the mental health platform and were both keynote speakers at the virtual event.
—Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
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Another sad dinner of PB&J and oranges, and back into the night to hear the keynote speaker.
—Lauren Groff, Harper's magazine, 1 Mar. 2020
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Take a look at this lineup: Leland Melvin is this year's keynote speaker.
—Alyson Ward, Houston Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2017
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At last year’s summit, women made up the majority of the keynote speakers and more than a third of the panelists.
—Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018
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Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston was one of the 2024 conference's keynote speakers.
—Bill Chappell, NPR, 4 Mar. 2024
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Lori Beninson, a past district governor and council chair for the club, will be the keynote speaker.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 25 Nov. 2022
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The group picked Amala Ekpunobi, who hosts a show for the conservative nonprofit PragerU, to be the keynote speaker.
—Samantha Chery, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2022
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Pritzker, who has stepped up his line of attacks against Trump in recent public appearances, is heading to New Hampshire next month to be the keynote speaker for a state party event.
—Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 25 Mar. 2025
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