newsgroups

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plural of newsgroup
as in chat rooms

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  1. debates
  2. deliberations
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  • Bristol education officials have appointed a new principal of the city’s Bristol Central High School after weeks of contentious meetings and debates on the replacement process.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2026
  • Employees today are operating through a constant lens of disruption from artificial intelligence, to return-to-office debates, to shifting expectations around culture and leadership.
    — Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of debates
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  • Once that juror felt comfortable convicting in the first degree, Feldman said, the deliberations were done and the jury notified the judge of its verdict.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2026
  • The American Medical Association’s (AMA) own deliberations on whether obesity should be considered a disease illustrate this clearly.
    — Max Moser, STAT, 9 July 2026
Definition of deliberations
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