Thesaurus results for ORGANIZATION

organization

noun

ˌȯr-gə-nə-ˈzā-shən

Definition of organization

as in association

a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest an organization of people devoted to promoting world peace

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Recent Examples of organization Give workers a reason to share On October 2, Norway’s government and eight employer and union organizations signed an AI agreement running through 2029. — Christoph Trattner, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026 Healthcare organizations already generate enormous amounts of information. — Sujay Jadhav, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 The organization’s members met in Rome and Vatican City, including at the Vatican Museums, for a meeting devoted to the theme of materiality. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 13 Oct. 2026 The money Topgolf saved by moving to VergeIO isn’t typical because Topgolf has larger needs than many organizations. — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 13 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for organization

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Noun

The clash added another layer to a campaign in which el Sayed’s positions on foreign policy and his associations with prominent progressive figures have become points of contention.

— Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
The hospitality and hotel sector is one of Europe’s largest employers, with more than 10 million people working across 2 million businesses, according to data from Hotrec, the association of hotels, restaurants, bars, and cafés in Europe.

— Ted Kitterman, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of association

Noun

This year there are 339 exhibiting companies and institutions from 32 countries and territories, 17% more than last year.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
The result is a country spending heavily to sustain its public institutions while struggling to deliver the services citizens expect and a political system increasingly consumed by conflict over how to fix them.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of institution

Noun

Last Energy, a commercial spinoff of Energy Impact Center, a clean energy institute based in Washington, DC, is building a pilot facility at Texas A&M RELLIS with a nuclear core that will also feature in its commercial-scale reactors.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
What illness, which the institute studies, has been the subject of speculation about her death?

— New York Times, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of institute

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But what begins as a bold and daring attempt to broach progressive issues in a notoriously conservative society ultimately loses its nerve, acquiescing to a number of eyebrow-raising narrative compromises.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
In countries where heat practices are deeply interwoven into society — such as Finland and Japan — public funding has supported some of this research.

— Will Stone, NPR, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of society

Noun

Others believe that the school’s ban on fraternity events is more of a response to external pressure than a push for long-lasting cultural change on campus.

— Rebecca Schneid, Time, 14 Oct. 2026
These groups sure sound less like software support forums and more like a fraternity house for corporate landlords.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of fraternity

Noun

The 911 call recordings, as reported by the Associated Press, showed that first responders and prison officials did not know whether a request for emergency help from within the execution chamber was legitimate.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2026
For the Duo, the team created a different vapor chamber that's thinner than the one in the iPhone 18 Pro.

— Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of chamber

Noun

Their evolving brotherhood was tested unexpectedly in 2010, when guitarist SHOW-HATE collapsed from a stroke immediately after a SiM concert in Sapporo, Hokkaido.

— Steve Appleford, SPIN, 12 Oct. 2026
Men of honor, with full-body tattoos and missing fingers, exchanging sake cups in elaborate brotherhood rituals, were becoming a bit passé, even as a fantasy.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of brotherhood

Noun

Already, multiple House Republicans; key GOP candidates; and two bipartisan groups of senators have pushed back on the move.

— Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Our ambition is to bring together creative and operational talent within a group that stays human in scale.

— Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026

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