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
  • Data he and his colleagues published last month in the BMJ suggests at least one in four former National Football League (NFL) players who died between 2016 and 2021 had CTE—Nowinski says this is an underestimate.
    — Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026
  • At the new Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York, Simpson, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, was left off the team's new Wall of Fame, which honors the greatest players in team history.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 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 28 Sep. 2026.

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