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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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For years, before I submitted a paper I would present it in a Chicago workshop; if it wasn’t completely destroyed, I figured it might be ready.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

May I suggest a workshop on growing a conscience?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

In a workshop in Old Havana, amid cracked walls and aging work tools, 54-year-old repairman Rogelio Valdivia describes himself as a bonafide "Fidelista."

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

I used to leave my workshop so messy that our engineering-major son would spend a day organizing it whenever he came home from college.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

He was fully liable, without limit, for all obligations incurred by his workshop.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

There are support groups and workshops for caregivers, as well as live music, theater, dance and history presentations.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

She visited regularly as the park grew to include over 50 rides, a museum, water parks, hotels and daily live shows and workshops.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

An almost unbroken line of slipways, cranes and workshops employing thousands of workers once stretched for miles along the south bank of the lower Clyde.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Now he’s married with seven kids and presides over something of an online personal-finance empire that includes an app, books, workshops and social-media communities.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

As a result, she imagined that the pupils at her mother’s Thursday workshops were her uncles’ children.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

The musical will be further workshopped later this year, with the team aiming for the first public performances in 2027.

From BBC Apr. 21, 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

When Libby and I workshopped our two-person Fiddler on the Roof, for the private performance we put on for her mom right when she started getting sick, I decided to stage the famous Bottle Dance.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

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

One recipe I’ve been quietly workshopping in anticipation of cooler weather is a beef-and-mushroom stroganoff with a horseradish cream sauce.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2025




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