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symposium

[sim-poh-zee-uhm] / sɪmˈpoʊ zi əm /


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For the week ahead, investors watch for Nvidia earnings and U.S. inflation data Wednesday, ahead of Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s appearance at the Jackson Hole symposium Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

In the coming days, investors will focus on the Kansas City Fed’s annual Jackson Hole symposium between Aug. 27 and Aug. 29. for fresh input on how authorities aim to tackle elevated U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

The paper suggests that the speech, which will be made on Friday at the annual Jackson Hole symposium, could be a crunch moment for one of Donald Trump's key economic appointees.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

The “Anything But Bonds” trope will only end, Hartnett contends, if Warsh signals hawkish at the Jackson Hole symposium Aug. 28, and both the Fed and Bank of Japan tighten monetary policy in September.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

The Getty was getting worried, so they convened a special symposium on the kouros in Greece.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

The public-facing work of the organization, like its panel discussions, debates, and academic symposia, can seem unobjectionable.

From Slate Dec. 11, 2022

The settlement includes $5,000 reserved in the provost’s office to pay for meeting expenses, events and symposia sponsored by the Carolina Black Caucus per year through June 2025, according to Hannah-Jones.

From Seattle Times Jul. 19, 2022

With this April 15 marking the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking baseball's color line, Major League Baseball will celebrate the occasion with great fanfare – with tributes, movies, TV specials, museum exhibits and symposia.

From Salon May 14, 2022

The textile medium usually invites an analysis of craft and women’s work, but here the ache overpowers any appetite for symposia.

From New York Times Nov. 10, 2021

“We talked about physics,” Oppenheimer recalled, recognizing that Ernest’s intellectual interests were narrower than his own and that he might not be especially receptive to wide-ranging symposia on Eastern philosophy and Western art.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Over the next few months, the coauthors will present their research at symposiums and conferences around the U.S., where they’ll receive feedback and engage in discussions with fellow researchers.

From Salon Sep. 25, 2024

Premier Li Qiang in March declared China open for business again, and since then provinces and cities from Sichuan to Chaozhou have sent delegations across the globe to pitch and invited investors to rare symposiums.

From Reuters Jul. 24, 2023

The 49-year-old political activist and lawyer won’t be a traditional full-time faculty member, the university says, but she will lecture, invite guest speakers, and host symposiums.

From Washington Times Apr. 5, 2023

And so I just kept writing more books and organizing symposiums and giving talks and whatever, assuming that if we piled up enough evidence, eventually our leaders would do the right thing.

From New York Times Jan. 18, 2023

The result of this fight gave the Colonists courage and taught them at the same time that it would be best to avoid New Jersey symposiums till after the war was over.

From Comic History of the United States by F. Opper




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