town meeting

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Recent Examples of town meeting Councilor Kenneth McClary, a strong Wong supporter, cautioned at the annual town meeting in early May that budget reductions would hurt citizens. Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2025 That’s why the recent decision by the Manchester-by-the-Sea Board of Health to ignore town meeting voters is so egregious. Peter Brennan, Boston Herald, 26 May 2025 Kil noted that one of the features of the town hall remodel project will deaden the noise from the passing trains, which at times can drown out speakers during town meetings. Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2025 Weaving intimate storylines of its nuanced residents, tense debates at town meetings and forays into its rich history, Creede USA offers a hopeful, humanistic and urgent glimpse at a community that must continually negotiate its common ground. Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 13 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for town meeting
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Noun
  • Several other guests to be announced with take part in the panel discussion with Gere, who has known the Dalai Lama for more than 40 years.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Bridging the divide After dinner, attendees heard directly from the honorees during a panel discussion moderated by Pulitzer award-winning journalist and former Detroit Free Press editorial page editor Stephen Henderson.
    Nour Rahal, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The appeal came in a letter sent Monday to the caucus chairs.
    James Hill, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The minority caucus leader was the second House Republican to resign in recent months.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • With the last night of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve falling on the same day this year – something that rarely happens – the reverend and rabbi choose to offer a joint service for their congregations.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Nickerson was immediately terminated after confessing to the behavior, McKinzie wrote in an email to the congregation at the time.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The assembly occurs in parallel, enabling multiple devices to be fabricated on a single chip in one step, by simplifying production and preserving the performance benefits of 2D materials.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • And there have been more of those in different places at different times, the assassination of the speaker of the Minnesota assembly, the shooting here in Colorado.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In July, its members voted to keep the church open and hand its administration over to the synod, which will make decisions about its future.
    Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • So too has his radical approach to inclusivity that welcomed the non-ordained faithful, including members of the LGBTQ+ community and lay women, to sit with bishops and contribute their thoughts on issues of church doctrine in meetings called synods.
    Aryn Baker, Time, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • Zhang Yiming, ByteDance's founder, was among the entrepreneurs invited to a high-level symposium chaired by President Xi Jinping in February.
    Evelyn Cheng,Anniek Bao, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Honda conducts an annual symposium in Japan where engineers and researchers from across the company including HRC gather to present and publish papers on their developments.
    Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The college says Pence will start in spring 2026, contributing to undergrad courses and teaching seminars.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The event also hosted a Forum series of seminars with industry experts from Thailand and across the region.
    Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At a recent colloquium on critical materials for AI hosted by Professor Alondra Nelson at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey, researchers lamented that confidentiality concerns often prevented forensic accounting of material needs for AI.
    Saleem H. Ali, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • Shirley Manson has a special connection with Argentina, particularly with its feminist movements; the singer even participated in a colloquium there in 2019.
    Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 19 Mar. 2025

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“Town meeting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/town%20meeting. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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