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
  • One chat room was set up specifically for contractors thinking of shuttering their firms and features more than 100 mostly anonymous members.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • One version of Scanlon’s blinking face has been viewed more than 6 billion times on Giphy alone, plastered in chat rooms, text messages and social media posts.
    Cristian Santana, NBC news, 27 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
  • Around this time, Backmann, also PCC executive director, contacted Army CID to discuss arranging a meeting with the Grogan family.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The Daily Dividend With the ongoing government shutdown, a Federal Reserve meeting and a barrage of earnings reports, you were bound to miss some headlines this week.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Speaking at a seminar at TIFFCOM, the festival’s market arm, the team behind the five country co-production, which included Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, France, and Luxembourg, discussed the difficulties balancing the requirements of film funds from each country.
    Marcus Lim, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
  • While Japan has bolstered its production incentives ecosystem, infrastructure remains a key challenge in the country, Shogun producer Eriko Miyagawa highlighted at an MPA seminar at the Tokyo International Film Festival today.
    Sara Merican, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • The symptoms were initially dismissed by her doctor as seasonal allergies, but when her eyes worsened, her mother pushed for a consultation with an eye specialist.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • An average cost per consultation may be anywhere from $50 to $200.
    Verywell Health, Verywell Health, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The eyeball test says BYU and Cincinnati are legit good, and Texas Tech belongs in that same discussion.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Oct. 2025
  • And this model of access, dependent on negotiation and renegotiation and repeated discussions about individual items, is neither sustainable nor capable of delivering aid at the scale that is needed.
    Anna Halford, Time, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Dental consult or mock-up session (if planned).
    Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse 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.
    Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Bull session.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bull%20session. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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