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 The shots were extensively tested for safety before they were authorized for emergency use, with the FDA requiring at least two months of follow-up safety data after vaccinating trial participants. — Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026 In an independent third-party clinical study of 33 participants, 100 percent showed improvement across seven key signs of lip aging after just one use, while 96 percent demonstrated enhanced lip volume after four weeks. — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 4 Aug. 2026 The Open Doors Producers program supports producers in their efforts to build sustainable careers and cross-border networks, bringing to the Swiss city six participants. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026 Three-fourths of participants on the Common App’s direct admissions platform are private institutions. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2026 The pattern also showed up in the semaglutide trials, where hair loss was reported by roughly 3% of participants versus about 1% on placebo. — Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026 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 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
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  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
  • Friday is here and that means all you Competitive Wordle players, playing against your friends, co-workers, rivals, enemies, or against me or the Wordle Bot, must double your points, whether positive or negative.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The ruling involves 16 men's basketball players who sued the NCAA in Cobb County Superior Court in July after exhausting four seasons of college eligibility.
    — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 7 Aug. 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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