Thesaurus results for SEMINAR

seminar

noun

ˈse-mə-ˌnär

Definition of seminar

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 However, the process is still far from over, as candidates are closely monitored for the next few years and must attend a variety of seminars, per The Athletic. — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 11 July 2026 Coaching seminars held by the Norwegian Football Federation have been known to play a short video showing a 16-year-old boy taking part in a shooting drill. — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 10 July 2026 The methods used to measure whether vaccines work, and the way they were discussed during the recent seminar, are not a side issue. — Ben Lopman, STAT, 2 July 2026 The atmosphere was not much better in my upper-level seminars. — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for seminar

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Now, thankfully, Reese Witherspoon is focusing on women’s projects with her company, and Geena Davis has that whole symposium and does all the metrics on how many women’s stories get told.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 16 July 2026
Power connections, which are fewer in number and take up more surface area, are placed on the sides of the memory cube, University of Tokyo doctoral student Yuki Mitarai said at the symposium.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 8 July 2026

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During the meeting, a handful of people looked at their laptops, with those attending in person sitting around a nearly empty oval table in the board’s conference room.

— Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 14 July 2026
And that April guidance was above the $101 billion analysts had been expecting toward the end of last year, before the company updated it at a conference in December.

— Hugh Son,Laya Neelakandan,Leslie Picker,Ritika Shah, CNBC, 14 July 2026

Definition of conference

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The justices are appearing before a House appropriations panel as the court seeks millions of dollars to beef up security amid a rise in threats to the judiciary.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
Kutkov’s firmware discovery also revealed that the V5’s antenna panel is about 16% longer and 30% taller than the portable Starlink Mini's.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 14 July 2026

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