guilds

variants also gilds
plural of guild

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Recent Examples of guilds On the Dungeon Master side, the book included new organizations, guilds and other element of city life that can be used as allies and antagonists. Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 Encourage Pollinators Growing fruit trees in guilds filled with annual and perennial flowers attracts pollinators to your trees and increases pollination rates and fruit yields. Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2025 They are joined by numerous film-industry associations and festivals — from editors, casting directors, and technicians’ guilds to groups like ZaLab and the Perugia Social Film Festival — reflecting a broad coalition that spans civil society, grassroots movements, and the cultural sector. Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025 Employees, dealers, and art advisers liken the duopoly to a pair of medieval guilds, or sports teams, or theatre companies, doomed and inspired in equal measure by a state of permanent competition. Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guilds
Noun
  • The United States has suspended some funding for its flagship AIDS relief program, according to international organizations and members of Congress who warn the cuts are already hurting patients and halting critical projects globally.
    Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • According to Anthropic, the company behind Claude, a hacker used its artificial intelligence chatbot to research, hack, and extort at least 17 organizations.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Studies have found associations between exposure to some herbicides and pesticides and cancer, hormone disruption, and other acute and chronic health conditions.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Their social credit system tracks citizens across every domain — financial transactions, social media, personal associations.
    Tanner H. Jones, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Shelton said that while sexualized hazing is commonly associated with college organizations like fraternities, it is also frequently observed in high school sports.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Two of the four were reported to have involved parties at UTC fraternities.
    Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Our conversation revealed how commercial space, AI, and medicine are converging in ways that will open entirely new opportunities for businesses and societies.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Each of these commitments comes nestled in a bramble of thorny questions that societies have been debating for the last, let’s round it off at, 250 years.
    Big Think, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That means public institutions that fire workers for comments in their personal capacity may be violating their constitutional rights, experts told IndyStar.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 17 Sep. 2025
  • That, in turn, impacts the rates these institutions charge for credit cards, loans and other financial products.
    Ryley Amond,Dan Avery, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • All proceeds from the event went to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Arkansas, which serves more than 8,000 children at its five clubs in the metro area.
    Michael Harley, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Unrivaled Experiences Growth Spurt Unrivaled will expand ahead of its second season with the addition of two new clubs and a development player pool, the league announced Wednesday.
    Roberta F. Rodrigues, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And who runs America’s colleges?
    Michael Graham, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The wave of threats that canceled classes and put multiple historically Black colleges and universities on lockdown are believed to be hoaxes, federal officials said.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In Ukraine, Soviet authorities under his control pressured writers, actors, directors, producers and artists, and criticized and attacked institutes of Ukrainian history and Ukrainian literature, creative unions and newspaper and magazine editorial offices.
    Yegor Mostovshikov, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Research institutes in Japan, China, and Europe have launched their own greenhouse gas-monitoring satellites.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Guilds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guilds. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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