bull session

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Recent Examples of bull session And though their scenes together are way too brief, the Older and Younger Elliott bull sessions give the movie both a spiky-humor rush and a sense of genuine grounding. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024 The newspaper’s staff won the Pulitzer for breaking news for a series of stories on a secret audio recording that exposed Los Angeles City Council members scheming in a crass and racist bull session about political power in the city. Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023 The entire movie is infused with a revolutionary, Year Zero spirit that becomes as exhausting as an undergraduate bull session. Kyle Smith, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022 This is a Tom Stoppardesque bull session. Dwight Garner, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022 But Mandel has the stylistic elegance and emotional sympathy to make this more than merely an undergraduate bull session. Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022 The calculations about what should be taught, or better yet what shouldn't be, sound like the workings of an all-night dormitory bull session. Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bull session
Noun
  • The ambience of the chat rooms is like that of Hooters: visually indelicate but discursively family-friendly.
    Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026
  • There’s been sports talk, there’s been barber shops, chat rooms.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Oh, and there was that springtime visit with the Nebraska football program, which included a clinic with the players and a long, in-depth skull session with the coaching staff.
    Steve Buckley, The Athletic, 25 July 2024
  • All of it – the jump in defensive rating from 18th last season to sixth; all those skull sessions with lead defensive assistant Jeff Bzdelik – was for nights like this.
    Sam Amick, USA TODAY, 23 May 2018
Noun
  • Hernandez said he was encouraged by recent meetings with Republican members of Congress from his home state, Florida, but worries other priorities will drown out the bill, as has happened in the past.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Fire department sedan strikes pedestrian – $225,000 Although this item was deferred by the Board of Estimates until its next meeting, the city’s law and finance department approved a near-quarter-million-dollar payout to Daryl Bailey after a Baltimore City Fire Department sedan struck him.
    Chevall Pryce, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Earlier this month, the organization hosted a seminar with special effects makeup artist Veniesa Dillon on sculpting techniques and prosthetic application.
    Nicole Macias Garibay, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • In March 2016, Pharrell accepted an invite from professor Bob Power to sit in on a senior seminar at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But tonight , the story of FDR’s visit to Miami will be retold at a symposium at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida in downtown Miami, a stone’s throw from the courthouse where Zangara was sentenced to die.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
  • There is a historic relationship between visual art and nuclear war, said Jim Walsh, a senior research associate at the MIT Security Studies Program on nuclear weapons risk issues in Iran and North Korea, who is also a speaker at the exhibit’s closing symposium.
    Chloe Shrager, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Empire Today supplies your flooring, schedules in-home design consultations and measures your home for new flooring.
    Dan Simms, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • That statement prompted a consultation with the hospital's child abuse pediatrician, who then filed a CPS report.
    Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • An online discussion about forming an unofficial supporters section brought four guys together for a beer.
    Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Have a frank discussion with your lawyer.
    Wendy Hickey, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Kevin Cope does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
    Kevin Cope, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2026
  • During the February 2026 stay, Laura again requested a posey bed and asked for a psychiatric consult.
    Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026

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“Bull session.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bull%20session. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.

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