town meeting

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Recent Examples of town meeting Councilor Kenneth McClary, a strong Wong supporter, cautioned at the annual town meeting in early May that budget reductions would hurt citizens. Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2025 That’s why the recent decision by the Manchester-by-the-Sea Board of Health to ignore town meeting voters is so egregious. Peter Brennan, Boston Herald, 26 May 2025 Kil noted that one of the features of the town hall remodel project will deaden the noise from the passing trains, which at times can drown out speakers during town meetings. Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2025 Weaving intimate storylines of its nuanced residents, tense debates at town meetings and forays into its rich history, Creede USA offers a hopeful, humanistic and urgent glimpse at a community that must continually negotiate its common ground. Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for town meeting
Recent Examples of Synonyms for town meeting
Noun
  • Variety’s Entertainment & Technology Summit gathered top executives, marketing leaders, technologists, entrepreneurs and creators across film, television and gaming on Thursday for a full day of keynote speakers, panel discussions and networking opportunities.
    Giana Levy, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The two-day event celebrates physical, mental and emotional health by hosting fitness activities, panel discussions, cooking demos, exhibitions, classes and live music.
    Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The caucus includes nearly 50 members of the House from both parties.
    Emily Brooks, The Hill, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Caldwell had served as the caucus’s communications director before leaving after the 2023 session to work for a charter schools group.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The elders sent a message to the Sovereign Grace Fellowship congregation about the arrest on Tuesday, Vanderwall told the Statesman.
    Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The undeniably, intimate congregation of a dozen people aims to foster friendship among people of different races, beliefs and backgrounds, while also breaking down stigmas about danger in the church’s neighborhood.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • He was charged with having a weapon at a public assembly or rally and going armed to the terror of people, both misdemeanors.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Pacheco, 39, who holds a college degree in sports education from Venezuela, was working at a school-bus assembly company.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In July, its members voted to keep the church open and hand its administration over to the synod, which will make decisions about its future.
    Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • So too has his radical approach to inclusivity that welcomed the non-ordained faithful, including members of the LGBTQ+ community and lay women, to sit with bishops and contribute their thoughts on issues of church doctrine in meetings called synods.
    Aryn Baker, Time, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • The group also maintains a prolific schedule of author talks, online symposiums and real-life get-togethers that all revolve around old-timey grub.
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Zhang Yiming, ByteDance's founder, was among the entrepreneurs invited to a high-level symposium chaired by President Xi Jinping in February.
    Evelyn Cheng,Anniek Bao, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Gabby perkily announces, sounding like a motivational coach at a weight-loss seminar.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
  • In the early nineteen-hundreds, Richard Cabot, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, started holding seminars to demonstrate clinical reasoning for trainees.
    Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At a recent colloquium on critical materials for AI hosted by Professor Alondra Nelson at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey, researchers lamented that confidentiality concerns often prevented forensic accounting of material needs for AI.
    Saleem H. Ali, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • Shirley Manson has a special connection with Argentina, particularly with its feminist movements; the singer even participated in a colloquium there in 2019.
    Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 19 Mar. 2025

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