town meeting

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Recent Examples of town meeting While the warrant for that town meeting is still being drafted, there will be articles on that warrant that, if approved, will bring East Bridgewater into compliance. Neal Riley, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026 Town meeting voters in Bellingham most recently rejected the NFG ordinance, while an NFG bylaw enacted by the Board of Health was recently rescinded by town meeting voters in Manchester-By-The-Sea. Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 8 Jan. 2026 The affordable housing proposal for 152 Three Mile Harbor Road and 33 West Drive was introduced by Kirby Marcantonio, one of the four partners in contract to buy the land for the development, at a town meeting last week, the East Hampton Star reported. Kim Velsey, Curbed, 11 Dec. 2025 At a crowded special town meeting attended by roughly 1,500 residents on Tuesday night, more than 70% backed a measure allowing homeowners to rent out their properties without any requirements on length of stay. Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for town meeting
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Noun
  • In addition to book presentations, the program will also include a panel discussion focused on film adaptations and a networking meeting for all participants.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 May 2026
  • In November, Kate hosted the Future Workforce Summit in London's business district, delivering a speech and listening to panel discussions on the topic.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • Dowdy referred questions about Cunningham attending Republican caucus meetings to lawmakers.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2026
  • The top contenders from the GOP's February caucus include Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth, businessman Kendall Qualls and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.
    Ashley Grams, CBS News, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • Ries ministers to the congregation of 211 members that belongs to the monastery church.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 May 2026
  • Site visits and work in the studio will be part of her creative research, as well as dialogues with religious communities and congregations, university professors and artisans.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • The center is equipped with state-of-the-art amenities to host student performances and school assemblies, but also to train the next generation of theater technicians.
    Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026
  • Depositphotos Thanks to researchers at Georgia Tech, robots have taken several new steps towards replacing human labor – and not simply for dangerous tasks such as mining the depths of the Earth and exploring the Moon, or difficult tasks such as high-speed mass-assembly of thousands of cars.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • The symposium on science and evidence is one of these events.
    Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 2 May 2026
  • Indonesia’s top foreign diplomat said the country will not pursue tolls on ships passing through the strait, seeking to calm concerns after its finance minister floated the idea at a symposium in Jakarta earlier this week.
    Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The church said there were roughly 30 people in the group and the disruption endangered staff, parishioners and visitors, and a seminar was underway at the time of the incident.
    Joe Kottke, NBC news, 3 May 2026
  • The romancer, which bowed in SXSW, follows Julia (Hawke), a frustrated video game designer, and Charlie (Pullman), a struggling musician, having supernatural impacts on the world after attending a couples therapy seminar to repair their volatile relationship.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • Sander’s great-grandson sold the painting at auction in 2021 to the Art Institute of Chicago, which recently hosted a colloquium on the work.3 Nineteen twenty-five was a heady year for photography and art in Weimar Germany.
    Noam M. Elcott, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2025
  • 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

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