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as in brainstorm

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as in seminar

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verb

present participle of brainstorm
as in communicating
to engage in an exchange of information or ideas they brainstormed about ways to raise money for their organization

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Recent Examples of brainstorming
Noun
This is an excellent day for brainstorming and connecting with people who inspire and support you. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026 Some are better at writing, others excel at coding, research, or brainstorming, and comparing them often means copying the same prompt into multiple websites. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 25 July 2026
Verb
Holliday is brainstorming ways to hopefully reverse the trend. — Rina Nakano, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026 The team’s entire front office was fired in 1978, and Rasmussen soon turned his attention to brainstorming with his son on the creation of sports on cable TV with the help of a $9,000 credit card advance. — ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for brainstorming
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brainstorming
  1. ideation
  2. seminar
  3. communicating
  4. creativity
  5. conference
  6. talking
  7. inspiration
  8. symposium
Noun
  • Centric Software said in a statement that Staud has already gone live with Centric PLM, a product lifecycle management platform which optimizes product execution from ideation to development, sourcing and manufacture.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026
  • This transforms message mapping and story ideation, letting brand communicators quickly turn fragmented inputs into a cohesive external narrative.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
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  • In lectures and seminars, his cleft palate caused his voice to be muted and his pronunciation at times unclear.
    — Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Some 20 years ago, Mary-Claire King was asked to hold a seminar at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
    — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of seminar
Verb
  • Last but certainly not least, there’s the focus on communicating local relevancy as a differentiator without weakening brand equity and DNA.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • For his part, Collins became the public face of Tylenol during the crisis, expressing empathy for the victims and their families while also communicating his firm’s commitment to improve safeguards around drug packaging.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of communicating
Noun
  • Knowledge workers such as scientists, teachers, lawyers and business leaders are increasingly using generative artificial intelligence applications for tasks that demand imagination, creativity and problem-solving.
    — Monideepa Tarafdar, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Duncan Wardle, author of The Imagination Emporium and former Disney VP of innovation and creativity, now leads iD8 & innov8.
    — Duncan Wardle, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of creativity
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  • Speaking Tuesday at Sportico’s Invest conference in London, Wrexham AFC non-executive director and former English Football League CEO Shaun Harvey said the soccer community needs to be thinking beyond this one case.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The presidents and chancellors of Clemson, Florida State, Miami and North Carolina sent a letter last week to House leaders seeking to increase the bill's membership cap for conferences from 20 to 22 schools.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of conference
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  • Being able to have the in-person connectivity with talking to your coworkers, being able to collaborate, is great and then also the larger programming of the company as a whole.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • By then, despite the predictions, Callum was walking and talking.
    — Deepa Fernandes, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of talking
Noun
  • Riley was a direct inspiration on the record, and while the Bay Area composer did work with drones, his influence is more poignant here, in the way Schwendener breaks the melody down into pieces and moves them around.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
  • For writer and musician Michael Farris Smith, who cites the album as a source of inspiration for novels like Desperation Road and Blackwood, the themes still resonate.
    — Jim Beaugez, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of inspiration
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  • For The Times) UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk’s statement to distance the university from a law school symposium on 9/11 has promoted growing faculty backlash over academic freedom.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Those reading the tea leaves even focused on how Warsh kicked off his speech at the economic policy symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
    — Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 1 Sep. 2026
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