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schmooze

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verb

variants or shmooze

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Recent Examples of schmooze
Noun
This is a great day to schmooze with friends and members of groups and organizations. Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 7 July 2025 Several hundred were on the scene to sip, snack, shake hands, schmooze and take tours of The A List’s showroom. Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2025
Verb
All branches of the Academy have been active in recent weeks, meeting about new membership matters, and Kennedy has used the opportunity to schmooze on Iger’s behalf. Matt Donnelly, Variety, 16 June 2025 The Oscar-winning producer and longtime Democratic donor is shown schmoozing with Trump inside the V.I.P. box at a football game, according to The New York Times‘ coverage of a Fox Nation documentary series titled Art of the Surge. James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for schmooze
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schmooze
Noun
  • Erin Andrews is a couple minutes late to our Zoom chat.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Her husband and their helpers are in various group chats together, which Nina says are a godsend in making sure everyone’s communicating and on the same page.
    ​Wendy Wisner, Parents, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The goal here is to find a place to regularly converse with guys.
    Essence, Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
  • McLaren and her team work on residential and commercial projects nationwide, incorporating an artful blend of styles and plenty of surprising details, from bold wall conversing to unexpected color palettes.
    Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The railroad’s willingness to pay the bill, including slimming down its own office payroll to free up more funds, appears to have limited the reputational damage enough for serious merger talks to proceed on down the tracks.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • However, the reality is that peace talks between Russia, Ukraine, and the US and Europe are clearly stalled, if at worse dead with many contentions from both sides surrounding security concerns and, importantly, trade sanctions.
    Earl Carr, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This model allows doctors to see fewer patients per day and spend more time discussing issues, lifestyles and treatment options beyond prescriptions.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The significance of this was that, according to reports in The Times, Soriot had privately discussed moving the primary listing of AZ, the biggest company in the FTSE-100, to New York.
    Ian King, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Two types of story dominated the chatter in the newsroom this week.
    Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Read the Room While everyone’s all for friendly chatter before the game or between plays, once the ball’s in the air, many folks will want to focus all attention on what’s happening on screen.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Having a gift for gab definitely helps pass the time between bites, Hinrichs says.
    Brad Dokken, Twin Cities, 16 Aug. 2025
  • 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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“Schmooze.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schmooze. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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