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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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Noun

At a panel discussion featuring several Fallout creatives in August, Pink discussed the myriad challenges of conjuring a wide range of looks for the show’s dystopian world.

— Laurie Brookins, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
Moranis participated in a panel discussion alongside co-stars Daphne Zuniga, Josh Gad, Keke Palmer and Lewis Pullman as well as director Josh Greenbaum and screenwriters Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez.

— Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of panel discussion

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Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said some members of his caucus plan to skip Dallas, preferring to stay home and campaign for reelection, but many of them will make an appearance.

— Jill Colvin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
The frustration within the Democratic caucus immediately prompted some calls for harsh consequences.

— Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of caucus

Noun

Cue an increasingly fraught war of words — and, eventually and inevitably, other very American weapons — in the congregation, with even the good preacher tiring of turning the other cheek.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026
Montilus said many Haitian members of her congregation, legal or not, are afraid to leave their homes for church.

— Nathan Lee, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of congregation

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At present, experts said, most of the Indian companies are either investing in setting up downstream assembly and testing facilities or making batteries for mobility, which are more lucrative given the government subsidies.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
Photovoltaic cells are laminated between the glass layers of the same insulated glass unit the building already installs, so the facade arrives at the site as one assembly.

— Zev Laine, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of assembly

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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

Noun

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
Instead, the group has donated to the University of Florida’s foundation and has helped to underwrite McCurdy’s annual kratom symposium, attended by about 100 scientists, to promote research into kratom’s therapeutic potential.

— Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of symposium

Noun

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

Definition of seminar

Noun

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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