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as in platform
a place or opportunity for communicating ideas and information a cable show might be the perfect venue for your opinions about local politics

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as in location
the area or space occupied by or intended for something the historic library is a perfect venue for the series of poetry readings

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Recent Examples of venue In August 2023, Perez – a tourism official who manages the island’s biggest concert venue, the Coliseo – got a phone call from two producers for Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, the genre-bending Puerto Rican rapper, singer, actor and occasional professional wrestler better known as Bad Bunny. Max Saltman, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025 The concert had been jeopardized by the strike and organizers considered finding a new venue at the last minute. Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025 The grassy backyard unfolds down to the high banks of the river — making an ideal venue for weddings, birthday and anniversary parties, family reunions and other special events. John Turton, Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2025 For example, inviting someone to volunteer at a food bank for migrant families or go to an LGBTQ+ venue. Sarah Stein Lubrano, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for venue
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  • By extending this concept to a nanoscale particle, the Tokyo team has created a new platform to explore how quantum laws apply at scales larger than atoms but still far smaller than everyday objects.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Expect More The Rubin CPX is an AI GPU inference accelerator platform focused on high-end generational applications.
    Jim McGregor, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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  • Within days of Cracker Barrel’s decision to ditch Uncle Herschel, the company’s market cap had shed $143 million, 15% of its value, forcing it to reinstate its old branding and pause plans to remodel Cracker Barrel locations.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The three celestial bodies will appear to be within a degree of each other, forming an almost perfect straight-line alignment for some and a tight triangle for others, depending on location.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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  • The rise of Al-Qaeda in the late 1980s and early 1990s roughly coincided with the beginning of the Internet era, and supporters found fertile ground to sow the seeds of jihadi ideology on websites and forums subject to little oversight at the time.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Underground forums and private channels often provide a real sense of community, recognition and purpose.
    Chris Wysopal, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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  • Trump and allies are decrying elite colleges and universities as places of extreme liberal ideology and antisemitism.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Until airlines and airports put better safeguards in place, the burden falls on passengers to protect their own information.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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  • Using long-term dietary data of habituated chimpanzees from each of the two field sites, the researchers found that chimpanzees consume about 14 grams of pure ethanol per day of foraging, Dudley said.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In addition, models with a 90Hz mini LED touch display appeared and then disappeared from Dell's site during our review period.
    Charles Jefferies, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Venue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/venue. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.

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