Thesaurus results for SCHMOOZE

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noun

as in chat

friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this had to master the art of the schmooze if she wanted to get ahead in the business

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verb

ˈshmüz

variants or shmooze

as in to chat

to engage in casual or rambling conversation spent every spare minute of the conference schmoozing with the industry's power players

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Its placement there must have been a deliberate way to build in a daily schmooze. —Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 15 May 2025 This is a great day to schmooze with friends, because people are warm, friendly and helpful. —Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 6 May 2025

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All branches of the Academy have been active in recent weeks, meeting about new membership matters, and Kennedy has used the opportunity to schmooze on Iger’s behalf. —Matt Donnelly, Variety, 16 June 2025 The Oscar-winning producer and longtime Democratic donor is shown schmoozing with Trump inside the V.I.P. box at a football game, according to The New York Times‘ coverage of a Fox Nation documentary series titled Art of the Surge. —James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for schmooze

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The current explosion of AI innovation—and particularly AI chat interfaces, which make AI accessible to anyone—is largely fueled by advancements in computing power, the availability of massive datasets and breakthroughs in ML algorithms.

— Tigran Sloyan, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Snapchat introduced Sponsored Snaps from creators, enabling advertisers to send a Sponsored Snap directly from a creator’s handle to Snapchat users in the chat feed.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025