as in chat
friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this
had to master the art of the schmooze if she wanted to get ahead in the business
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or shmooze
as in to chat
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
spent every spare minute of the conference schmoozing with the industry's power players
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Recent Examples of schmooze
Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 6 May 2025
Enjoy social outings, the theater, sports, fun activities with kids, saucy flirtations, happy hour, coffee with friends – schmooze!
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2025
Natasha Frost, New York Times, 1 May 2025
To succeed in a struggling industry, performing-arts administrators devote extra personal time to cultivating relationships that could be beneficial to their organizations, whether that’s schmoozing donors to secure contributions or showing up at events to be an active part of the community.
—Oliver Sava, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
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Noun
This is a great day to schmooze with friends, because people are warm, friendly and helpful.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 6 May 2025
Enjoy social outings, the theater, sports, fun activities with kids, saucy flirtations, happy hour, coffee with friends – schmooze!
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2025
Verb
Emmanuel Macron has taken to dropping in on random bars, without press or an entourage, to schmooze with patrons and hear their day-to-day concerns.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 1 May 2025
To succeed in a struggling industry, performing-arts administrators devote extra personal time to cultivating relationships that could be beneficial to their organizations, whether that’s schmoozing donors to secure contributions or showing up at events to be an active part of the community.
—Oliver Sava, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schmooze
Noun
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As mentioned above, your chats and inputs to generative AI are likely discoverable at this point to determine whether generative AI was used to create invention scope beyond what was disclosed by the original human inventors.—
Wen Xie,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Cox internet customer service Contact Cox customer service or check on a Cox internet outage via phone, text or online chat.—
Kara McGinley,
USA Today,
1 July 2025
Verb
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The investment firm has launched the GS AI Assistant, an AI program that will let workers across its divisions converse with large language models that are firewalled within Goldman, ideally eliminating the threat that sensitive data could escape into the wild.—
Chris Morris,
Fortune,
24 June 2025
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Your next toy or game may be able to converse with you.—
Queenie Wong,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2025
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In a 179-page court filing submitted in 2024, prosecutors finally unpacked years of whispers and street talk in granular detail, laying out an explosive account of what allegedly happened before, during and after that fateful night in Las Vegas.—
Danielle Bacher,
People.com,
1 July 2025
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But along with streamlining testing and certification processes, the talks had the additional goal of growing a domestic industry.—
Ed Garsten,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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In a survey of 404 regular users of AI companionship apps, researchers at MIT Media Lab found that 12 percent of respondents initially sought out these systems to cope with loneliness, and 14 percent used them to discuss personal or mental-health issues.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Diddy took notes while the prosecution, defense and judge discussed what to respond to the jury's note asking for clarification on drug distribution.—
Tracy Wright , Lauryn Overhultz , Maria Paronich , Brendan McDonald,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2025
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There was a lot of chatter about taxes and changes to the tax system for colleges.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2025
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Both players are near the top of their respective positions, but there was a lot of chatter regarding Fitzpatrick.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 July 2025
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The latest gab session was instead devoted to taking questions from the fans — which led to a surprising story about a rock & roll legend.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
18 May 2025
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And as the resident gossip expert, no one is more equipped to handle the trickiest aspects of gab, even when gossip just might be the villain of the story.—
Kelsey McKinney,
Rolling Stone,
8 Feb. 2025
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“Schmooze.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schmooze. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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