keynote address

variants or keynote speech
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Recent Examples of keynote address The billionaire venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems cofounder lashed out on X at student protesters who walked out of Stanford’s 135th commencement ceremony while Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai was delivering the keynote address. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 June 2026 During a keynote address at Taiwan's Computex conference on Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a new N1X processor made alongside Microsoft. Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 1 June 2026 In Long Beach, Forest Lawn, a cemetery park built in 1921, held a Memorial Day observance on Monday morning that featured a keynote address, patriotic music, invocation, ceremonial wreath presentation, the Pledge of Allegiance, a color guard, and a presidential proclamation. Daily News, 25 May 2026 Pichai said during the keynote address that the Gemini app had 400 million monthly active users last year, but that usership has now surpassed 900 million, more than doubling in a year. ABC News, 19 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for keynote address
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Noun
  • In January 2025, a federal judge ruled that portion of the ordinance overburdens free speech rights by prohibiting anyone from providing any lecture in any San Diego public park or beach.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • And now today, Indiana head coach Stephanie White opens up her presser with a lecture on how America is racist and homophobic.
    Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • Swift recently paid tribute to the Hollywood icon with an entire song on The Life of a Showgirl and licensed imagery and other intellectual property from Elizabeth Taylor's estate for the music video.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • Barcenas' tea-sipping celebration was a tribute to Alex Morgan, one of the Wave's owners, who pretended to take a sip of tea after scoring in a match against England during the 2019 Women's World Cup.
    ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
Noun
  • Would her child be buried in a separate part of the cemetery without the appropriate eulogies?
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • Mourners thronged a vast prayer complex in Tehran on Saturday as the week-long funeral ceremonies of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei began with the national anthem, religious eulogies and readings from the Koran.
    Reuters, USA Today, 4 July 2026
Noun
  • If a street preacher shouts their sermon into a bullhorn on a public street, and a nearby business owner calls the police, who is in the right?
    Emily Holshouser July 2, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 July 2026
  • The Cupichs attended a parish where mass was celebrated in Latin (the liturgical changes of the Second Vatican Council were yet to come) but the sermons were spoken in Croatian.
    René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026

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