participants

noun

plural of participant
as in participators
one who takes part in something he seemed to be a willing participant in the prank

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Recent Examples of participants Instead there were tech founders who didn’t seem to know much about cultural industries, or art world participants who didn’t seem to know much about tech. — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 21 July 2026 Several talks at the conference mentioned this launch, which the Indian space participants were very proud of. — Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 According to its 2025 annual report, Girls in the Game served 3,059 participants in FY25. — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026 Details, including participants, will be announced later this week. — Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 21 July 2026 Study participants with very low p-tau217 levels likewise had a low risk of developing cognitive impairment over the five- to 10-year period. — ABC News, 15 July 2026 Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Versant and major private equity firms are among the participants in an auction run by boutique investment firm Liontree, according to Puck. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 14 July 2026 And the cancer of one of these participants had disappeared completely. — Sam MacDonald, Scientific American, 14 July 2026 The liability shield exists only inside the sandbox, and only for participants that follow the rules. — John Nay, Fortune, 14 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for participants
  1. participators
  2. players
  3. actors
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
Definition of participators
Noun
  • Rome, ItalyReuters — Former AC Milan and Italy defender Franco Baresi, one of the most recognizable players of the golden era of Italian soccer in the 1980s and 1990s, has died at the age of 66, his former club said on Friday.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 31 July 2026
  • Some of the top players in the field, though, did not get off to a good start.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Definition of players
Noun
  • Those two actors are also examples of stars who have struggled to find new material on the same level as the work that garnered them awards attention in the first place.
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 31 July 2026
  • In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Blake Collins and Jordan Warkol — former actors who both starred in The Little Rascals in 1994 — opened up about their lives after the blockbuster film, and leaving life in front of the camera.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026
Definition of actors

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