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
  • The non-meat use of the term came from the online chat room community, which by the late 1980s was already using it to denote a mass influx of data into their chat rooms that could trigger a computer crash and/or annoy chat room users.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Robinson left a handwritten note for his romantic partner confessing to the crime, and also confessed to friends on the chat room platform Discord, prosecutors said.
    Matthew Brown, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2026
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 backstory South America’s largest city sprawls as far as the eye can see with towers and highways, which explains how this part of town (not the most central) has become a hub for meetings.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2026
  • Trump’s meetings with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, began at the Great Hall of the People moments after a welcome ceremony that seemed to impress the president, featuring a Chinese military honor guard and a greeting from excited schoolchildren.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • The room was narrow and had only one window, and the seminar table was actually four small tables of different heights, which, shoved together, rocked back and forth like shifting tectonic plates.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • Founded in 1998 by Keith Raniere, Nxivm was known for its Executive Success Programs (or ESP), an executive coaching seminar that was taken by as many as 16,000 people over two decades.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • On May 14, the Colour Of Cannes Honours, a new industry symposium focused on filmmakers of colour attending the Cannes Film Festival and Cannes Market, will launch its inaugural edition at the Plage des Palmes.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 11 May 2026
  • This weekend’s symposium in Nashville is one of the most significant parts of the center’s outreach to justices.
    Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 2 May 2026
Noun
  • Many also offer free or low-cost initial consultations, but acting quickly matters.
    Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 14 May 2026
  • In addition to her daily schedule of operations and consultations, there are interns to train and a clinic renovation to oversee.
    Jon Frosch, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • Araghchi said Russia’s proposal was not currently under active discussion, but could be revisited.
    Sheikh Saaliq, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2026
  • After four seasons, Lawrence left Spin City when Fox did and went on to create Scrubs at NBC, a series that often gets lost in discussions of how TV comedy evolved in the aughts.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • The next steps are psychological consults, a physical exam, uterine evaluation and blood work.
    Ann Marie Luft, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026
  • Tirias Research tracks and consults for companies throughout the electronics ecosystem from semiconductors to systems and sensors to the cloud.
    Francis Sideco, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026

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“Bull session.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bull%20session. Accessed 18 May. 2026.

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