Thesaurus results for TOWN MEETING

town meeting

noun

Definition of town meeting

as in panel discussion

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Recent Examples of town meeting According to Blahunka, almost 60 people attended the April 14 annual town meeting, based on the meeting’s sign-in sheet. — Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026 Surely no one thought the entire population of 13 states could work like a town meeting. — Barbara Clark Smith, The Conversation, 4 May 2026 Longtime colleagues excoriated one another in internal town meetings. — Steven F. Wilson, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026 He’s also been involved in local issues, speaking at town meetings and backing community projects. — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for town meeting

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Related Stories An invite-only audience of industry voters will attend, with a cocktail reception preceding the panel discussions.

— William Earl, Variety, 2 Nov. 2026
The evening was emceed by aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe and featured a cocktail reception, a panel discussion and a screening of five documentary profiles produced by Vox Creative.

— Claire White, Vox, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of panel discussion

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Those disagreements have already fueled some resistance to Jeffries, raising questions about whether different factions of the Democratic caucus will fall in line behind him.

— Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2026
On speculation that the caucus will be unable to request a roll call vote with just three members, Sampson is skeptical that Democrats would deny a request.

— Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of caucus

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During court proceedings, relatives and friends accused Mackenzie of indoctrinating his congregation with doomsday sermons.

— Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2026
Hamilton brought a friendly, centrist persona and a knack for fundraising to the race as the founder of the 25,000-member Church of the Resurrection in the Kansas City area, the nation’s largest United Methodist congregation.

— John Hanna, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026

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The statement by the assembly, which is a clerical body responsible for appointing and overseeing Iran's supreme leader, added to growing calls within Iran's political establishment to reconsider the country's longstanding nuclear policies.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Nov. 2026
Before a backdrop that included a duo of Apache and Blackhawk helicopters, both women during the early Thanksgiving visit on Thursday thanked an assembly of hundreds of soldiers and their families for their service to the nation.

— Darlene Superville, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2026

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The testimony of the gay men, contained in annexes published on the Vatican's synod website, featured moving accounts of how one, from Portugal, came to terms with his homosexuality and married his husband.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 May 2026
Leo, the former Cardinal Robert Prevost, spent two weeks sitting with Fuanya at the same table during Pope Francis’ 2024 big meeting, or synod, on the family.

— Nicole Winfield, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026

Definition of synod

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Production paused in Season 1 when a mining symposium took over the town’s hotels.

— Max Gao, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
Meanwhile at the Architectural Association’s campus on Bedford Square, the foundation, together with the architecture school and the Serpentine, held a two-day symposium in Hadid’s honor.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of symposium

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Boden told The Hollywood Reporter, talking the day after his keynote speech at the annual Motion Picture Association (MPA) seminar at Tokyo International Film Festival.

— Gavin J Blair, HollywoodReporter, 2 Nov. 2026
The Proof Again, Huang began sending out e-mails—more than 40 in 2023—and gave a circuit of seminar talks.

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of seminar

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Like the inaugural colloquium in 2024, the event will conclude with a gala dinner accompanied by live music.

— Anthony DeMarco, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
McGill’s superbly nuanced calls, runs, and trills elicited commentary from a second audience, perched in the trees above—a colloquium of finches, towhees, titmice, kingbirds, juncos, and Eurasian collared doves.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

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