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event

[ih-vent] / ɪˈvɛnt /


NOUN
performance, competition
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They said the 11-day event would be similar in scale to previous years, with about 18,000 South Korean soldiers participating.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

As the event began to fade, however, weak signatures of hydrogen and helium gas appeared.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

The last time the Summer Paralympics were in the United States, in 1996, the event was run by a separate committee from the Olympic organizers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

He invited her to MaiTai, an exclusive networking event he built in Maui, Hawaii, around water sports.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Considering the time period, the odds were that the Butterfly would be a white male, probably in his twenties so that he would easily blend in with the event.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

The couple met briefly while playing at various beach volleyball events, but they really got to know each other and clicked while spending three weeks together during tournaments in China, India and the Philippines.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

The end of seasons one and two included events that brought together the restaurateurs they’d met.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

The destruction produced one of the most powerful cosmic events ever recorded.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

In the biggest races in the sport, such as three-week Grand Tour the Tour de France, some stages take place on fully closed roads, but many World Tour events use a 'rolling roadblock'.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Both sensed that people, and by extension markets, had difficulty attaching the appropriate probabilities to highly improbable events.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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