as in panel discussion
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Recent Examples of town meeting
The actions were taken Wednesday after a special town meeting on Tuesday in which hundreds of outraged residents, many of them parents, demanded answers about who knew what and when.
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Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2024
Residents packed a town meeting to express their outrage.
—Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
He is mentioned in a 2017 newspaper article for speaking out at a town meeting against a resolution pledging to create a welcoming environment for immigrants, including undocumented ones.
—Richard Fausset, New York Times, 10 June 2024
The film's conflict occurs primarily in a single scene: a town meeting wherein two developers (pictured here) show face among locals in a haphazard attempt to garner community support for their plans.
—Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2024
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Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2024
Residents packed a town meeting to express their outrage.
—Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
He is mentioned in a 2017 newspaper article for speaking out at a town meeting against a resolution pledging to create a welcoming environment for immigrants, including undocumented ones.
—Richard Fausset, New York Times, 10 June 2024
The film's conflict occurs primarily in a single scene: a town meeting wherein two developers (pictured here) show face among locals in a haphazard attempt to garner community support for their plans.
—Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for town meeting
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Newsweek hosted a panel discussion event during Climate Week NYC to explore the environmental impacts of AI and its soaring energy consumption.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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Later during the trip, which the couple made at the invitation of Colombian Vice President Francia Márquez, Meghan gracefully spoke Spanish during a panel discussion uplifting Afro-Colombian women.Janine Henni, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
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The Republican caucus had not been able to review the details of the 242-page agreement yet, the group said in a statement.Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 12 Dec. 2024
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By convention, House Republicans are expected to vote for whoever their caucus endorses during the floor vote.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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To raise money, the congregation is selling Christmas tamales and hosting a tamale-making class on Friday.Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2024
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After blessing the holy water, the archbishop will sprinkle it over the congregation and then the altar.Christian Edwards, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
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Dealers will replace the exterior touchpad switch assemblies, free of charge, and owner notification letters are expected to be mailed Jan. 13, 2025, the NHTSA said.Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
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Instead of manual assembly, HITS-Bio employs a four-by-four array of pipette nozzles that are digitally directed to move in three dimensions, all while also handling multiple spheroids at once.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
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At previous synods, women were only allowed more marginal roles of observers or experts, literally seated in the last row of the audience hall while the bishops and cardinals took the front rows and voted.Nicole Winfield and Trisha Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
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In the Polish Pope’s world view, anti-Communism and traditionalism were inextricably combined; for him, renewal had spread out of control, and the regional synods were part of the problem.Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
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Fain has added his own twists, planning a once-a-year symposium that incorporates local women’s rights advocates, local therapists and a representative from A Call to Men.Matt Villano, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
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Image As part of the events program around the Neue Nationalgalerie show, the museum announced a daylong symposium to discuss how the conflict in Gaza was polarizing artists in Germany.Alex Marshall, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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Each of them will be on-site, presenting pairings and seminars throughout the extended weekend.Brad Japhe, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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After the seminar, Mondragon loaded up his white pickup truck with boxes of N95 masks, face shields and goggles to take back to his job site and share with the other workers.Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
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In 2021 and 2022, Cannon took weeklong trips to the luxurious Sage Lodge in Pray, Montana, for legal colloquiums sponsored by George Mason, which named its law school for Scalia thanks to $30 million in gifts that conservative judicial kingmaker Leonard Leo helped organize.Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2024
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In 2017 Perlin organized a colloquium on Eunice Foote (an American scientist who, in 1856, was the first to argue that putting greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere could cause climate change).Eugene Linden, TIME, 21 Apr. 2024
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