participants

plural of participant

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of participants But for the rest of the pack, bigger challenges lie ahead, according to some market participants. — Kif Leswing,isabel O'Brien,seema Mody, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2026 The applicants had wanted to hold the march in the afternoon with 60 participants. — Amanda Ferguson Reuters, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026 Yet an annual religious procession promoted by far-right and nationalist groups in four Russian cities drew huge crowds in September, with more than 100,000 participants in Moscow alone, according to official figures. — Cnn Staff, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026 Some participants were handed carry-on and checked baggage for the trial. — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026 In the first technician pilot, all 105 participants who completed the program were placed in roles. — Alice Barlow, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026 Inside Lindblom, university leaders playfully lobbied on behalf of their campuses to a group of more than a dozen participants, who fired inquiries back about courses, postgraduation job success rates, campus accessibility and culture, and more. — Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026 Time therefore became a critical factor, as market participants first needed to understand the role and implications of partnering with a public investor that shared both risks and returns. — John Hopewell, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026 The brand used smaller-scale settings to facilitate exchange and give participants more space to interact, while a continuous series of activities allowed individual encounters to develop into relationships. — Advertorial, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for participants
Noun
  • And in doing so, Gunther often lulls crowds into becoming sporting event spectators rather than the raucous participators that most other wrestlers try to draw out of them.
    — Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The Board of Control for Cricket in India issued show-cause notices to both players and briefly suspended them from the national team.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
  • And while the anthem played , the two teams' players, coaches and others stood along the sidelines.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Gray praised the producers and actors who helped bring the film to life and reflected on his early dreams of being a filmmaker.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Unlike human actors, AI agents can retain long‑term memory, track emotional patterns and surface consequences consistently.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

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“Participants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/participants. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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