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as in gatherings
a coming together of a number of persons for a specified purpose
there will be another committee meeting next week to discuss the parish fair
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as in conferences
a body of people come together in one place
a meeting marked by no consensus of what needs to be done
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as in confluences
the coming together of two or more things to the same point
a meeting of two railroad lines
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Recent Examples of meetings
The parks report was launched, in part, by what Fisher and a UC Irvine public health expert, Jason Douglas, heard during meetings with people who live near the parks in South Los Angeles.
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Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2026
Children are welcome at the Adult Learners Club’s meetings and provided with games and movies to entertain them while their parents get down to business.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2026
And while the talks were tough at moments, the meetings were not entirely acrimonious.
—Kevin Liptak, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2026
It was hosted by the Pakistanis, who helped broker the cease-fire so the talks could happen, the first high- level face-to-face meetings between top American and Iranian political leaders since the 1979 revolution.
—CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
The recent highest-level meetings were between Secretary of State John Kerry and counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif during negotiations over the program.
—Munir Ahmed, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026
To be eligible, candidates must live or work in La Jolla, have attended at least three Town Council meetings in the past 12 months and be a Town Council general member.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2026
But, in the course of several meetings in the spring of 2023, Altman seemed to waver.
—Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
And the corridors bend with the shape of the building and terminate with a windowed study area that provides sunlit spaces that promote unstructured meetings.
—Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2026
Children are welcome at the Adult Learners Club’s meetings and provided with games and movies to entertain them while their parents get down to business.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2026
And while the talks were tough at moments, the meetings were not entirely acrimonious.
—Kevin Liptak, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2026
It was hosted by the Pakistanis, who helped broker the cease-fire so the talks could happen, the first high- level face-to-face meetings between top American and Iranian political leaders since the 1979 revolution.
—CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
The recent highest-level meetings were between Secretary of State John Kerry and counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif during negotiations over the program.
—Munir Ahmed, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026
To be eligible, candidates must live or work in La Jolla, have attended at least three Town Council meetings in the past 12 months and be a Town Council general member.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2026
But, in the course of several meetings in the spring of 2023, Altman seemed to waver.
—Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
And the corridors bend with the shape of the building and terminate with a windowed study area that provides sunlit spaces that promote unstructured meetings.
—Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meetings
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And the gatherings staged at the branches around the county are wide-ranging — from veterans meetings at the Chickasaw branch and a chess club in Winter Garden to acrylic painting in Eatonville and family board games Saturdays at the southeast branch, north of the airport.—
Scott Maxwell,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Apr. 2026
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Their parents, Maury and Christine Paden, first opened Massés as a billiards hall and sports bar in 1994, turning it into the go-to place for nachos, wings, family- and late-night gatherings and viewing parties for all kinds of sports.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Viewers can expect coverage of alien conferences, crypto-cults and micronations.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Apr. 2026
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For the last two-plus months, Philadelphia has cleaned up against lottery and play-in teams, going an eye-popping 20-3 in their final 23 games against opponents that finished outside the top six in their respective conferences.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
16 Apr. 2026
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That burden, along with the conventions of the true-crime genre, not to mention that of theater in service of a political point, sometimes hampers the interpretive space of the actors and the creative team, who have to spend a lot of their time getting the facts and the history across.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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Business travel and conventions haven’t returned to pre-COVID levels, and many hotels in Connecticut cities have struggled.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
15 Apr. 2026
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The flexible stack can be laminated under existing display or interface assemblies, allowing integration without major redesigns or complex component integration.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Apr. 2026
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The assemblies aren’t the end of the nomination process — indeed, some of the highest-profile names in Democratic politics are foregoing it.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
28 Mar. 2026
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The carbon released by tectonic rifts may have had a larger role in driving major climate transitions than that released by tectonic convergences.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Although Turning Point’s show was intended to offer a radical contrast, the many thematic convergences only strengthened that argument.—
David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
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That leads to longer build times as those complicated parts are sewn together with assemblages of other, smaller parts, before being shipped across the ocean, and eventually trucked to the final construction site.—
Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
2 Apr. 2026
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Though many were faded and dusty, the assemblages nevertheless crackled with an almost urgent vibrancy, beckoning the viewer closer.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
30 Mar. 2026
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Supporting the shows are combinations of Thundercat, the Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser, Cage the Elephant, Ölüm, and, in Europe, Alex Cameron and Fat White Family.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
13 Apr. 2026
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Leone taught and codified dozens of complicated pick-stroke combinations, to give depth and expression.—
Tim Parks,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2026
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The merger, which went into effect July 1, 2022, was one of two consolidations of Evanston’s Catholic parishes.—
Claire Murphy,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
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That commitment to theatrical releases is more important than ever to an industry that has seen a shrinking number of films in theaters, particularly after studio consolidations.—
Samantha Masunaga,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Meetings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meetings. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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