as in meetings
a gathering of a group of people for a specified purpose
The impending economic crisis prompted widespread calls for a special session of the legislature to enact emergency measures. Court is in session.
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Recent Examples of sessions
In an exclusive photo diary shared with People, the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star offers a glimpse into her first week of rehearsals, glam sessions, and family moments leading up to the live premiere.
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Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Traditional shoe testing depends on athletes running multiple sessions across weeks to produce a usable dataset.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
Funding the high-speed rail project On the final day of sessions, legislators agreed to allocate $1 billion each year from the state’s cap-and-trade program to fund the high-speed rail project.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
The sessions are confidential, though employers receive data that’s been anonymized, but which indicates wellness trends.
—David Phelan, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
From 1910 to 1913, President William Howard Taft used Knollwood as his summer White House, hosting strategy sessions and gatherings that helped shape the national conversation.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2025
Parents reached out after the sessions with videos, kids checking oil, fixing flat tires.
—Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
How ketamine therapy works in the brain A few months after that Google search, Jacintha and Lucy walked into the Northwest Ketamine Clinic’s Bellevue, Washington, outpost, where Lucy began the first of 12 ketamine infusion sessions, all administered in April and May of 2023.
—Rachel Hale, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
During the closed beta, which only offered about 16 hours of total gameplay spread across the weekend’s sessions, the competition was brutal.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Traditional shoe testing depends on athletes running multiple sessions across weeks to produce a usable dataset.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
Funding the high-speed rail project On the final day of sessions, legislators agreed to allocate $1 billion each year from the state’s cap-and-trade program to fund the high-speed rail project.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
The sessions are confidential, though employers receive data that’s been anonymized, but which indicates wellness trends.
—David Phelan, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
From 1910 to 1913, President William Howard Taft used Knollwood as his summer White House, hosting strategy sessions and gatherings that helped shape the national conversation.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2025
Parents reached out after the sessions with videos, kids checking oil, fixing flat tires.
—Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
How ketamine therapy works in the brain A few months after that Google search, Jacintha and Lucy walked into the Northwest Ketamine Clinic’s Bellevue, Washington, outpost, where Lucy began the first of 12 ketamine infusion sessions, all administered in April and May of 2023.
—Rachel Hale, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
During the closed beta, which only offered about 16 hours of total gameplay spread across the weekend’s sessions, the competition was brutal.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sessions
Noun
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In the public markets, as an example of that approach, Mounsey-Heysham points to a company such as virtual meetings giant Zoom.—
David Prosser,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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But in face-to-face meetings, senior Danish military commanders say that neither Russia nor China currently present any significant military threat to Greenland.—
Matthew Chance,
CNN Money,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Break the bomber into sub-assemblies and move them on a line like automobiles.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Aug. 2025
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The projector-prism assemblies of the display modules sit behind the plate, flanking the adjustable rubber nosepads on wire arms.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The immersive professional development program is available for students and early career professionals at technical conferences and congresses around the world.—
Joanna Goodrich,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 May 2025
Noun
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These gatherings come at a critical time, following an unsuccessful UN Global Plastics Treaty and a sobering report from the UN Secretary-General that only 35% of the Sustainable Development Goals are on track to be met by 2030.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Southern recipes are always at the heart of these gatherings, and no one embodies that tradition better than my husband’s grandmother, Claire.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
16 Sep. 2025
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