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agora

[ag-er-uh] / ˈæg ər ə /
NOUN
marketplace
Synonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK




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Anyone who has spent any time in the digital agora will know the chilling feeling of seeing some supposedly secret thing about yourself suddenly reflected in a targeted advertisement.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

It’s a lovely image: Kirk as a modern-day Socrates, wandering the agora of America’s universities seeking to find truth by means of rhetorical contest.

From Salon • Sep. 17, 2025

The report is the initial phase of an ambitious effort to map the modern agora, referring to the lively assembly places of ancient Greece often considered to be the birthplace of democracy.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023

The Stoics were so named because Zeno instructed his students in the stoa poikile, or “painted porch” in the Athenian agora.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

On the street going eastward from the agora nothing is mentioned between it and the city wall.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various




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