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as in parliaments
the highest lawmaking body of a political unit
the national emergency required a special session of congress
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as in meetings
a coming together of a number of persons for a specified purpose
following World War I a great congress of world leaders took place in Paris to plan the postwar world
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as in organizations
a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest
the Canada Trades and Labor Congress
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Recent Examples of congresses
The list of signatories includes many of the field’s most prominent names, more than 50 of whom have spoken at previous congresses.
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Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2026
Palestinian soccer officials have long argued — including at FIFA annual congresses across the past 15 years, before Infantino was president — that Israel violates statutes by letting teams from settlements in the West Bank play in the national league.
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ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
The foundation hosts biannual congresses, with panels devoted to discussing recent threats to the rule of law, and awarding honors to lawyers who defend it.
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Fabio Bertoni,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
More than 300 full and non-voting delegates of the powerful Central Committee will gather in Beijing for the closed-door plenum, one of seven meetings typically held within five years, between party congresses.
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Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
20 Oct. 2025
At the same time, the city continues to grow as a MICE destination, hosting congresses, fairs, and international events in venues like the City of Arts and Sciences or Feria València.
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Visit València,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
The letter follows members of the UN’s human rights council in calling for Israel’s suspension from football, while the PFA has done so at the last two FIFA congresses.
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Ali Rampling,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
Compared to their forerunners in the tsarist era, with their party congresses held abroad, their executive committees, and their active recruitment in imperial Russia’s universities, Soviet dissidents remained a comparatively small and informal conglomeration of activists.
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Benjamin Nathans
september 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
Zionists settled other differences by the same democratic method in later congresses.
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Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2026
Palestinian soccer officials have long argued — including at FIFA annual congresses across the past 15 years, before Infantino was president — that Israel violates statutes by letting teams from settlements in the West Bank play in the national league.
—
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
The foundation hosts biannual congresses, with panels devoted to discussing recent threats to the rule of law, and awarding honors to lawyers who defend it.
—
Fabio Bertoni,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
More than 300 full and non-voting delegates of the powerful Central Committee will gather in Beijing for the closed-door plenum, one of seven meetings typically held within five years, between party congresses.
—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
20 Oct. 2025
At the same time, the city continues to grow as a MICE destination, hosting congresses, fairs, and international events in venues like the City of Arts and Sciences or Feria València.
—
Visit València,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
The letter follows members of the UN’s human rights council in calling for Israel’s suspension from football, while the PFA has done so at the last two FIFA congresses.
—
Ali Rampling,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
Compared to their forerunners in the tsarist era, with their party congresses held abroad, their executive committees, and their active recruitment in imperial Russia’s universities, Soviet dissidents remained a comparatively small and informal conglomeration of activists.
—
Benjamin Nathans
september 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
Zionists settled other differences by the same democratic method in later congresses.
—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for congresses
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As supposedly independent states, all members of the USSR had their own presidents and parliaments.
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Those concerns haven’t stopped European parliaments from pushing for their own versions of an Australian-style ban.
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Another clutch offering is a workstation for getting computer work done in between meetings.
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Not only that, but government meetings are just clicks away on your cell phone or laptop, an advance that was hastened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Dias said that backers of noncitizen voting need to build a broad coalition — grassroots organizations, election officials, lawyers for the city — before taking the proposal to voters.
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The prince is the official royal patron of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and also the Patron of the Football Association (FA), England's governing body for soccer organizations.
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That means executive orders and White House positioning matters far less than the restrictions and limits on AI moving through state legislatures in Texas, Tennessee, Minnesota, and Indiana.
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Rather than just letting humanities departments die off, red-state legislatures have flooded public universities with something like a Works Progress Administration for academics.
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Videos from these gatherings showing chanting crowds beneath concert lights, audience members crying, hugging strangers and dancing barefoot have racked up millions of views online.
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For years, the singer has marked the Fourth of July holiday with gatherings at her Rhode Island home, hosting friends and family for celebrations that became a hallmark of her summers.
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Each year, Congress apportions funds to individual institutes within NIH based on what lawmakers deem most critical to the public.
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The company has 23 quantum systems installed at research institutes, enterprises, and high-performance computing centers and understands the need and urgency for fault-tolerant quantum computers.
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Luke Russert joined his father for major political conventions and occasional shows on the road, Fischer Martin said.
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Motown is part of the pitch to businesses considering Detroit for conventions, conferences and other large gatherings, Ollinger said.
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To mitigate the financial impact, players’ associations usually create a lockout fund that pays players a portion of their salary during a work stoppage.
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These non-profit associations focus on every imaginable issue and activity, and reflect the widely divergent views of our population.
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“Congresses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/congresses. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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