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
  • The program featured panel discussions and keynote conversations with leaders across entertainment, marketing, tech, design, as well as industry insiders from the NFL, JPMorganChase, PepsiCo Beverages, FCB, Hello Products and more.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Poitras, Obenhaus and fellow producers Olivia Streisand and Yoni Golijov are expected to join Hersh along with one of the journalist’s key Abu Ghraib sources — Camille Lo Sapio — for a panel discussion after the screening.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Republicans have pleaded for five members of the Democratic caucus to join the three who have already crossed party lines to back a reopening in recent weeks, but have seen their calls stonewalled as the remaining 44 Democrats have remained united.
    Al Weaver, The Hill, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The same three senators from the Democratic caucus who have voted with Republicans on previous votes — John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto, as well as Angus King of Maine, one of two independents in the caucus — did so again on Wednesday.
    Kevin Breuninger,Erin Doherty, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Conscious of this, Mamdani spent many Sundays this summer in church, courting Black congregations around the city.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The London audience — which included Greta Gerwig and Andrew Lloyd Webber — couldn’t stop laughing throughout the two-hour crime comedy, which follows Blanc latest case, this time revolving around a charismatic priest, Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, and his devout congregation.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The ruling party, Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, controls the legislature with 94 of 100 seats at the senate and 152 of 180 at the national assembly.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
  • These capsules were then carefully arranged and sealed within the final experiment assembly.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 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
  • Students and alumni will take part in the symposium, too.
    Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Where the symposium fostered a social dialogue, science provided its measurable foundation.
    Footwear News, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Both are also mandated to attend a parenting seminar within 60 days of the divorce filing.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The event will unite renowned winemakers, distillers, and chefs, and include more than 50 celebrity chef demos and beverage seminars.
    Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 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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