as in heart
the central part or aspect of something under consideration
the need for a greater sense of self-reliance is the keynote of his self-help message
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Recent Examples of keynote
Black Tech Week 2025 concluded in the Queen City on July 16 with a keynote speech by Emmy-winning television personality Keke Palmer.
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Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 16 July 2025
Looking back at Zuckerberg’s 2021 Facebook Connect keynote shows just how hard the company was selling the promise of the metaverse at the time.
—ArsTechnica, 3 July 2025
Select a format that best suits your audience (e.g., keynote, fireside chat, workshop).
—Jack Hayes, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
On the same day, Berlinale director Tricia Tuttle, Stuart Ford, chairman and CEO of AGC Studios and Ed Guiney of Element Pictures will share their experiences during the opening keynote.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 22 July 2025
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Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 16 July 2025
Looking back at Zuckerberg’s 2021 Facebook Connect keynote shows just how hard the company was selling the promise of the metaverse at the time.
—ArsTechnica, 3 July 2025
Select a format that best suits your audience (e.g., keynote, fireside chat, workshop).
—Jack Hayes, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
On the same day, Berlinale director Tricia Tuttle, Stuart Ford, chairman and CEO of AGC Studios and Ed Guiney of Element Pictures will share their experiences during the opening keynote.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 22 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for keynote
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Adam always finds a way to keep Cam's memory alive which warms our heart.—
Lauren Huff,
EW.com,
28 July 2025
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Their pleas resonated with Americans and because those pleas were never answered, Americans kept the family in their hearts.—
Lisa R. Cohen,
New York Daily News,
28 July 2025
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The shocker is a plot of earth’s temperature, obtained from ice cores and lake sediments, tracks minima and maxima of the sunspot plot at six different times between 1600 and 2000.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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As a result, the core muscles do not need to engage in order to maintain this postural position throughout the exercise.—
Matt Parrott,
Arkansas Online,
3 Aug. 2025
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To capture the true essence of the college, the Netflix movie was filmed inside the school buildings and at various spots around the university.—
Caroline Blair,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Empower responded, in essence, that retirement savers deserve a crack at the lucrative private investment market, after decades of exclusion.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
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The instrument’s roots go at least as far back as the fifteenth century, but it was nearly lost to history, salvaged solely by a grassroots revival in the nineteen-eighties.—
Elena Saavedra Buckley,
New Yorker,
1 Aug. 2025
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The business traces its roots to 1949 when Joseph Gibeley, a Depression-era hat salesman, opened a kiosk and then a store in Salem, Mass.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
1 Aug. 2025
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Though the characters are fictional and some of the plot points are exaggerated, Williamson clarified that the impetus of the story was based on his father’s struggles and choices.—
Dana Feldman,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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No criminal charge has been brought to the District Attorney's Office to this point, said 15th Judicial District Attorney General Jason Lawson.—
Andy Humbles,
The Tennessean,
7 Aug. 2025
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That corn, with bright red kernels that could be mistaken for pomegranate seeds, are what High Wire Distilling decided to use to make their signature bourbon.—
Don Tse,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Even popular alternatives like sourdough or rye usually don’t measure up to whole wheat bread unless they’re made from whole kernels.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
31 July 2025
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His gist is both elegant and internally consistent as well as wholly unique.—
Abraham Josephine Riesman,
Vulture,
28 July 2025
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There was still some vagueness around specifics, but the basic gist of the deal is that European imports to the U.S. will mostly be tariffed at 15 percent.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
28 July 2025
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“Keynote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/keynote. Accessed 11 Aug. 2025.
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