chat room

noun

Definition of chat roomnext
as in bull session

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Recent Examples of chat room This was in the days of dial-up, so the actual process of getting online, finding a chat room and soliciting suggestions took forever. — Kelly Leonard, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Messi is now in the same chat room as Tom Brady, LeBron James and Novak Djokovic as pro athletes who can still do it late in their athletic lives. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 June 2026 Heartbroken community members mourned together in the chat rooms. — Ava Berger, NPR, 29 Apr. 2026 The non-meat use of the term came from the online chat room community, which by the late 1980s was already using it to denote a mass influx of data into their chat rooms that could trigger a computer crash and/or annoy chat room users. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for chat room
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chat room
  1. bull session
  2. skull session
  3. meeting
  4. symposium
  5. seminar
  6. consultation
  7. consult
  8. roundtable
Noun
  • 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
Definition of bull session
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
Definition of skull session
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  • But the mood coming out of Monday’s meeting was that a 20-team model will not be taken seriously.
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The report will be officially released today at a Community Development and Human Services Committee meeting.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of meeting
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  • The symposium was moved from a 400-seat auditorium at the National Gallery to a meeting room at Dumbarton Oaks that seats 80.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The central bank skips an August meeting as the Kansas City Fed hosts its annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of symposium
Noun
  • The clinics have over five years helped support over 500 filmmaking teams to date, and some of the early interest in this edition of the seminar is already surpassing last year’s edition.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The Mary Kay seminar, which has called the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center home for years, is on tour while the convention center undergoes those remodels.
    — Bo Evans, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of seminar
Noun
  • Earlier this week, the EFL confirmed it had been served with legal proceedings by the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) over changes enacted in League One, with the PFA citing insufficient consultation on the rule amendments.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Diplomatic efforts today too often grant the Taliban a formal place at the table while limiting contact with Afghan women to informal consultations.
    — Rina Amiri, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of consultation
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  • Path2Papers, a project at Cornell Law School, analyzed 1,600 consults and estimated that around 60% of DACA recipients would be subject to the 10-year ban.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Mark Vrtiska 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.
    — Mark Vrtiska, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
Definition of consult
Noun
  • Be present at roundtables, industry events and peer gatherings, but do not stop there.
    — C200, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • These plans have been hatched prior to the final one taking place in less than a month’s time and are understood to have been discussed at a recent roundtable with figures from the local sector.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 July 2026
Definition of roundtable

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