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workshop

[wurk-shop] / ˈwɜrkˌʃɒp /
NOUN
place where light industrial or manual work is done
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NOUN
discussion group
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Sector funds can become a devil’s workshop where otherwise patient investors chase the demonically bouncing ball of short-term return.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Jackson realized early into his personal-finance teaching journey that parents often share the same knowledge gaps as students, which led him to create a “CFO workshop series” for parents.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

College later this fall and is currently helping to teach a workshop at the college on climate solutions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

In March, they attended a workshop, learned how to sow the tiny seeds, and were given their own growing equipment, including pots, seed trays and soil.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

In the workshop scarfs and cushions as well as saris were embroidered.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

In the early years, James also recalled he would cover the word "ballet" on the van they took to do community workshops because he feared it would put people off before trying.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The resort also offers 35 classes a day, ranging from archery to wildflower workshops to yoga.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Los Angeles has long known how to produce this kind of wonder, in its aerospace workshops, soundstages and sometimes, its architecture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

In Coventry, Adele Harrison, founder of not-for-profit organisation Cov Cloth, runs workshops that teach children and parents how to transform unwanted textiles and household items into Halloween costumes, decorations and accessories.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

She finally found her subjects—Dan Croteau and Cate Woolner—through a group in western Massachusetts that runs workshops for people in cross-class relationships.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

With his team, he workshopped lines they hoped would be like a bucket of ice water, including a slogan Carney had used before: “Nostalgia is not a strategy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Raicek has been busy in preproduction on her play “Fire Season,” which has already been workshopped with actors including Billy Crudup and Amanda Seyfried.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

We also talked much about the Torrance 3 bus, Johnson’s “mental workspace” where, to and from practice in Long Beach, he wrote and workshopped many songs, including “Constant Headache.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

Videos appeared to show a man telling demonstrators that the chant had been "workshopped" in Oxford.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025

In the professional theater world, you would say they have been workshopped.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Reality, having already borrowed the premise, apparently decided to keep workshopping it.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

That’s caused headaches when workshopping job applications: Cover letters come out with everyone’s work and educational experiences all mushed together, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

A group of bondholders recently met in Washington to present to the world’s top economists and policymakers a proposal they had been workshopping for the past year.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Markwayne Mullin has a brilliantly dumb idea he’s workshopping.

From Slate ● May 30, 2026

She recalled workshopping Khong’s title story a decade ago with their longtime Bay Area writers group — about a newlywed who dies, goes to heaven and encounters her husband there again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026


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