as in symposium
a meeting featuring a group discussion
a seminar bringing together the world's leading epidemiologists
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Recent Examples of seminar
That center now has Zumba classes, seminars for seniors, financial literacy classes, youth lunches and a variety of other programming.
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David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 June 2026
The center offers first-year seminars for new students and a yearlong, co-curricular residential program for undergraduates that helps people learn to be open-minded, recognize personal cognitive biases and work collaboratively with others even if there are disagreements, according to its website.
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Kate Perez,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
Matthew Weiner offered perhaps the seminar’s most profound meditation on where meaningful stories actually come from.
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Marc Adelman,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
State officials are hosting a series of seminars about the STAR program throughout New York state this July.
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Jesse Zanger,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
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David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 June 2026
The center offers first-year seminars for new students and a yearlong, co-curricular residential program for undergraduates that helps people learn to be open-minded, recognize personal cognitive biases and work collaboratively with others even if there are disagreements, according to its website.
—
Kate Perez,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
Matthew Weiner offered perhaps the seminar’s most profound meditation on where meaningful stories actually come from.
—
Marc Adelman,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
State officials are hosting a series of seminars about the STAR program throughout New York state this July.
—
Jesse Zanger,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for seminar
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seminar
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Likewise, Nicholas Galanin and Margarita Cabrera withdrew from a symposium at the Smithsonian American Art Museum over the institution’s decision to keep the event private and record it—a move the artists characterized as government censorship, an accusation the museum denied.
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Prior to our conversation earlier this year, Ayala and Mose-Vargas had both attended a symposium celebrating the 40th anniversary of David Montejano’s Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, a foundational text on class and race in the Southwest.
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Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department During the news conference, Bluthenthal's two children delivered a plea for justice via video, while his mother spoke directly to the crowd.
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And oncology conferences are beginning to include sessions on hormones and how to help women after cancer.
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Similar bills approved by the panel in previous years were never voted on by the full Senate.
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The investor panel that night tried to address this directly.
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“Seminar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seminar. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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