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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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At a city commission workshop in Winter Haven, in central Florida, last week, commissioners grappled with the amendment’s potential fallout.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Nationwide there are now multiple all-women repair groups, including the organisers of the Hangzhou workshop, Mulan Build.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

Our workshop began with gentle stretching in an open field.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

In 1997, Socolow ran a summer workshop for the U.S.

From Salon Jun. 26, 2026

It simply reminded him of his best memories—building things with his mom in her workshop; sitting in the sunshine with his friends at camp.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

The Quaker-inspired coalition also founded New York’s Strother School of Radical Attention, which offers courses and workshops on attention as a practice that, maintained and exerted, makes it easier to recognize and refuse such extraction.

From Salon Jul. 13, 2026

The doorknob-size piece, inlaid with carnelian, agate and lapis lazuli flowers reminiscent of the Taj, exemplifies how even the smallest functional item would be meticulously crafted and decorated in a consistent style in Mughal workshops.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

Saleh sometimes leads painting workshops where participants can decorate items like ornaments and lampshades.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

A presidential commission to determine how habitable buildings are has been organizing workshops to prepare engineers and architects to inspect buildings damaged by the earthquakes.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

These were specially favoured by millers, smiths, ropers, and cartwrights, and others of that sort; for even when they had holes to live in, Hobbits had long been accustomed to build sheds and workshops.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Standing up and being counted can't always be workshopped.

From BBC May 12, 2026

People inside the company workshopped how to communicate this week’s retirement in a way that respected users, anticipating some would be upset, the people briefed on the decision said.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 10, 2026

Margo Price said "Love to see it" while Kacey Musgraves workshopped a few puns around the regency of Crow.

From Salon Feb. 15, 2025

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

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

So he began workshopping a twist, landing on a monster that is used by an oppressive community as a tool of coercion.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

Anthropic’s partner, a startup called Andon Labs that is workshopping agentic businesses, built the hardware and software integration, and handled the entire setup.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 18, 2025

Indeed, the administration is already workshopping a version of this argument, noting in Khalil’s case that their enforcement actions are entitled to a “presumption of regularity” by the courts.

From Slate Sep. 15, 2025

“There’s cinnamon swirl, cinnamon raisin. And this one I’ve been workshopping for the girls because they love everything rainbow — funfetti sourdough.”

From Salon Aug. 31, 2025




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