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 Return of the Quasi-Star Over the last few years, Mitchell Begelman has been teaching a graduate student seminar on little red dots at the University of Colorado, Boulder. — Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026 Toy Storage Nation conducts seminars, produces podcasts, and advises owners, operators, and potential investors. — David Owen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026 Skillfully insinuating actors on the order of Tom Hollander (Treasurer Robert Hales) and Stephen Dillane (Archbishop Sudbury) add some spice to the film’s periodic seminars in court scheming and skulking. — Michael Phillips, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026 That soon led to Davis taking a job arranging lectures and seminars and, later, overseeing the organization’s public programming. — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for seminar

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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
Those reading the tea leaves even focused on how Warsh kicked off his speech at the economic policy symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

— Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of symposium

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OpenAI is holding its annual DevDay developer conference on Tuesday, where the artificial intelligence company is expected to showcase a flurry of new products and features.

— Ashley Capoot,Kate Rooney,Chris Eudaily, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
At the conference, participants could finally participate in that conversation.

— Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of conference

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Recently several of my fellow judges on a literary panel declined to read submissions that were more than two hundred pages long.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
The group of senators — which includes all Democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Africa panel — criticized both sides of the conflict.

— Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 28 Sep. 2026

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