bull session

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Recent Examples of bull session And though their scenes together are way too brief, the Older and Younger Elliott bull sessions give the movie both a spiky-humor rush and a sense of genuine grounding. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024 The newspaper’s staff won the Pulitzer for breaking news for a series of stories on a secret audio recording that exposed Los Angeles City Council members scheming in a crass and racist bull session about political power in the city. Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023 The entire movie is infused with a revolutionary, Year Zero spirit that becomes as exhausting as an undergraduate bull session. Kyle Smith, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022 This is a Tom Stoppardesque bull session. Dwight Garner, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022 But Mandel has the stylistic elegance and emotional sympathy to make this more than merely an undergraduate bull session. Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022 The calculations about what should be taught, or better yet what shouldn't be, sound like the workings of an all-night dormitory bull session. Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bull session
Noun
  • His chat room—a continual stream of comments from fans—expressed a range of reactions to Kirk’s death.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The scars of the Troy Aikman to Tony Romo years run deep with the Cowboys, and Jerry has repeatedly demonstrated he’d rather be in the conversation for the playoffs than in the chat room for a top pick in the draft that could be used for a quarterback.
    Mac Engel September 4, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Oh, and there was that springtime visit with the Nebraska football program, which included a clinic with the players and a long, in-depth skull session with the coaching staff.
    Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 25 July 2024
  • All of it – the jump in defensive rating from 18th last season to sixth; all those skull sessions with lead defensive assistant Jeff Bzdelik – was for nights like this.
    Sam Amick, USA TODAY, 23 May 2018
Noun
  • The firm began by interviewing the mayor and council members and later held in-person and virtual community meetings.
    Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Officials based their decision on a scoring committee and community survey results that followed a September public meeting where both finalists pitched themselves to the community.
    Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Gabby perkily announces, sounding like a motivational coach at a weight-loss seminar.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
  • In the early nineteen-hundreds, Richard Cabot, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, started holding seminars to demonstrate clinical reasoning for trainees.
    Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The group also maintains a prolific schedule of author talks, online symposiums and real-life get-togethers that all revolve around old-timey grub.
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Zhang Yiming, ByteDance's founder, was among the entrepreneurs invited to a high-level symposium chaired by President Xi Jinping in February.
    Evelyn Cheng,Anniek Bao, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On 10 September, the Council held consultations in response to the large-scale violation of Polish airspace by Russian drones.
    Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The show was directed on Broadway by Stephen Kessler, with creative consultation by Jeff Calhoun, and dramaturgy by Seth Barrish.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This information, however, is fed to the board by the company, which by necessity involves a degree of filtering to decide the amount of detail required and the depth of the discussion.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The discussion touched on the impact of A-list festival selections and wins as well as victory at the Academy Awards.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Jack McNamara does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
    Jack McNamara, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Lucy Xiaolu Wang does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
    Lucy Xiaolu Wang, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Bull session.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bull%20session. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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