1
as in auditorium
a large room or building for enclosed public gatherings
watched the hockey game in the new sports arena
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as in area
a region of activity, knowledge, or influence
has a lot of influence in the local business arena
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Recent Examples of arena
The promotions in the NHL arena that viewers see on TV may not actually exist in person.
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Luke Connors, Washington Post, 19 May 2026
That money will come in handy as Iambic looks to reinvest in its product pipeline beyond the cancer arena.
—Brad Quick, CNBC, 19 May 2026
Clark has been a brand ambassador for Gainbridge, a race sponsor that also holds naming rights to the home arena of the Fever, since her senior year in college.
—ABC News, 19 May 2026
Suggestions include redeveloping the site into a new Dallas Mavericks arena, a casino, or public park.
—Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 19 May 2026
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Luke Connors, Washington Post, 19 May 2026
That money will come in handy as Iambic looks to reinvest in its product pipeline beyond the cancer arena.
—Brad Quick, CNBC, 19 May 2026
Clark has been a brand ambassador for Gainbridge, a race sponsor that also holds naming rights to the home arena of the Fever, since her senior year in college.
—ABC News, 19 May 2026
Suggestions include redeveloping the site into a new Dallas Mavericks arena, a casino, or public park.
—Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 19 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arena
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With its curved ceiling, the 120-seat auditorium serves not just as a film and laser show venue but also as a planetarium.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado,
Sacbee.com,
16 May 2026
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The package is to include $40 million in general obligation bond funding to modernize the Legendary Roy Wilkins Auditorium, a 5,800-seat auditorium built in 1932.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
14 May 2026
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The San Diego Police Department asked the public to avoid the area surrounding the Islamic Center of San Diego.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
19 May 2026
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Guest rooms and suites with spacious living areas are both available, all of course equipped with the famous Four Seasons mattresses and linens that nearly guarantee a sound night’s sleep.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
19 May 2026
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Its amphitheater has a busy calendar of live music throughout the summer, from Broadway reviews to Taylor Swift tributes.—
Maryam Siddiqi,
Travel + Leisure,
18 May 2026
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After the Cyclones hired a company to schedule events for the project’s amphitheater, conversations evolved into shows at Jack Trice Stadium.—
Matt Baker,
New York Times,
12 May 2026
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Where Soap was straightforwardly in the realm of sitcom—leaning toward broad humor, underlined stylistically by the presence of a laugh track—Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman knew just how to strike that sweet spot between screw-loose absurdity and genuine pathos.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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Internationally, however, the film’s distribution prospects rest largely on Cotillard, also burdened with the heaviest dramatic lifting to do as the stricken, unworldly protagonist who bridges the film’s two improbably connected realms.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
18 May 2026
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Alex Smalley leads the field at the 2026 PGA Championship through three rounds of play, with a score of -6.—
Data Skrive,
New York Times,
17 May 2026
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Also, without names, the people are on a level playing field with the snowflakes, who are the man’s new friends, and, without names, the doctors can be known solely by their specialties.—
Deborah Treisman,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
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At the Yale University Art Gallery, which is showing the complete series in the photographer’s largest exhibition yet, the images are hung in tall, orderly grids, like a periodic table of the human elements.—
Max Norman,
New Yorker,
21 May 2026
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On paper, certain design elements shouldn’t make sense, like the vine wallpaper mixed with cloth foliage fabric wall coverings, or the houndstooth wallpaper in a bathroom that’s already an alchemy of half a dozen different tile patterns.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 May 2026
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Look for in-place federation that queries domain systems where the data lives, persistent cross-domain state and discovery that recognizes when signals from different domains belong to the same event.—
Shailesh Manjrekar,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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And to be clear, funding health care and nutrition assistance is explicitly the domain of the state and federal governments.—
Monica Montgomery Steppe,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 May 2026
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Chelsea are due to have nine centre-backs, not including the possibility of any new signings, so this is an obvious department for a clear-out.—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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Councilmember Mai Vang was against sacrificing the ambassadors and again advocated to cut some long-vacant police department positions which could free up millions of dollars in the budget.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
20 May 2026
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“Arena.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arena. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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