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Recent Examples of round-robin The other two coaches in a round-robin tournament will be Pete Carroll of the Raiders and Sean Payton of the Broncos. Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025 Researchers had 39 participants engage in a round-robin speed-dating experiment. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 This is when fans can submit ticket applications for individual group-stage matches (the tournament’s opening round in which groups of teams face off round-robin–style before the teams with the best records advance to the single-elimination knockout-round bracket). Meredith Heil Bock, AFAR Media, 8 Sep. 2025 In April, World Sevens held its first event in Estoril, Portugal, which featured two days of round-robin group play among eight teams followed by a single-day knockout tournament. Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 4 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for round-robin
Recent Examples of Synonyms for round-robin
Noun
  • Dohnányi also attended Leonard Bernstein’s conducting seminar at Tanglewood.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The market aims to foster international co-productions and content business development through seminars, project markets, pitch contests and networking opportunities.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Rull said her boss, Cutié, also didn’t know how the $150,000 for the rodeo and the mayors’ symposium was added to Aviation’s budget.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Sulwhasoo’s research with Johns Hopkins University is ongoing, and the company will continue to host the symposium annually to unveil additional research.
    Emily Burns, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The fund has been used for costs like student pay, conference fees and other operation costs, according to the donation page.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Mainly, this conference is just being dominated by longtime football juggernauts Ohio State, Oregon and … Indiana.
    Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The recall comes six months after Tesla and the NHTSA recalled roughly 46,000 Cybertrucks that were at risk of a trim panel detaching.
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The event orbited around a panel, moderated by TIME’s editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs, that discussed how AI could shape the future of fashion—particularly from a customer’s perspective.
    Tharin Pillay, Time, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Round-robin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/round-robin. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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