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 The 15 à la carte dishes are described in spare language but use senior-seminar-level food geography terms. — John Kessler, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 Their correspondence often reads like a philosophy seminar conducted in a living room. — Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026 Some do indeed help their practitioners, but dozens, perhaps hundreds, more sell worthless self-help through seminars or on the internet. — Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 4 Oct. 2026 In lectures and seminars, his cleft palate caused his voice to be muted and his pronunciation at times unclear. — Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for seminar

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Some of the symposium's organizers, like Ashley Mason, a clinical psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco, acknowledge their goal is partly to dispel the whiff of wellness hype.

— Will Stone, NPR, 11 Oct. 2026
For The Times) UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk’s statement to distance the university from a law school symposium on 9/11 has promoted growing faculty backlash over academic freedom.

— Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026

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Undoubtedly, the biggest blow was the announcement that the kingdom is postponing its flagship investment conference, the Future Investment Initiative, until next year, although no exact date has been set.

— Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Fraschilla has been calling Big 12 basketball for a quarter-century and knows the conference landscape as well as anybody.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026

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Wood panel in front of the three-compartment sink is not smooth and easily cleanable and container used for butter packets is cracked.

— NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
ChatGPT’s Chrome extension has been able to read your open tabs since July, when OpenAI added the feature to its Side Chat panel.

— Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2026

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