Thesaurus results for CONFERENCE

conference

noun

ˈkän-f(ə-)rən(t)s

Definition of conference

as in assembly

a body of people come together in one place the conference voted to conclude that day's meeting and to resume discussions the next morning

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as in symposium

a meeting featuring a group discussion a conference on the need for international cooperation in combating emerging viruses

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as in discussion

an exchange of views for the purpose of exploring a subject or deciding an issue a parent-teacher conference to discuss a student having trouble in school

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Recent Examples of conference Research to be presented at this year’s NeurIPS conference in Sydney, Australia, demonstrates the benefits of a process for making biological computing more systematic known as an Embodied Neurocomputation Framework. — Mike McRae 19, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026 Not only has there been no repeat NBA champion in the 2020s—there has yet to be a repeat conference champion. — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 20 Oct. 2026 With two young, deep teams at the top of the conference, all roads seem to lead to an encore of last year’s Western Conference final. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026 Leaky defense West Virginia’s offense has needed to be productive this season, as the Mountaineers may have the worst defense among Power Four conference teams. — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for conference

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Noun

The nearly six-minute film shows how the team combines precision machining, assembly, and repair to accelerate robot development.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
It has since been lifted to a vertical position and moved inside the bay alongside three other Ship upper stages still under assembly.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of assembly

Noun

Some of the symposium's organizers, like Ashley Mason, a clinical psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco, acknowledge their goal is partly to dispel the whiff of wellness hype.

— Will Stone, NPR, 11 Oct. 2026
For The Times) UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk’s statement to distance the university from a law school symposium on 9/11 has promoted growing faculty backlash over academic freedom.

— Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of symposium

Noun

No discussion of nuclear deterrence should ever lose sight of the human lives behind those words.

— Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
Those discussions reveal how employees think and give managers a chance to coach reasoning, not just review the final deliverable.

— Samir Dutta, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of discussion

Noun

Every year, Noting’s fan community elects a community board observer, a volunteer who attends the company’s quarterly board meetings and presents customers’ views on products and launches to its directors.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
That same year one of the scientists who first uncovered the existence of GRBs, Ray Klebesadel of the clandestine Los Alamos National Laboratory, gave a talk at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of meeting

Noun

The consultation, surgical approach and follow-up care may also differ, which can affect the overall cost.

— Kaitlyn Gomez, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026
Norway will now hold a public consultation on the recommendations made in the report, with the central bank due to submit its response in January.

— Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of consultation

Noun

In Labor of Light (2016), an assemblage of technologies comes together as a kind of altar to the history of video production.

— Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
These are electric cars, which apparently justifies a vaguely techy-sounding alphanumeric assemblage.

— Jason Barlow, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of assemblage

Noun

Wood panel in front of the three-compartment sink is not smooth and easily cleanable and container used for butter packets is cracked.

— NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
ChatGPT’s Chrome extension has been able to read your open tabs since July, when OpenAI added the feature to its Side Chat panel.

— Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2026

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