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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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A new workshop summary, however, argues that recent advances mean terraforming should now be treated as a legitimate area of scientific research, even if any real attempt remains far in the future.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

State media reported there being 237 workers on site when the fire started in a first-floor workshop.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

The most meaningful one for her was an ornament workshop attended by several victims of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

The popularity of such courses was clear last month at a Shanghai workshop run by another all-women company, 38fix -- named for the March 8 date of International Women's Day.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

Macon wiped his hands on his shorts and went to his workshop.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

The team plan to run workshops and structured interviews with at least 45 anglers to pick their brains about the local ecology and size of sharks caught in the past.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

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

Her company now has a monthlong backlog of orders, with workshops consistently fully booked.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

The board ultimately agreed to adopt the manufacturing decarbonization incentive, but committed to conducting additional workshops and evaluations of the program before issuing any allowances for it.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

In other matters they were, as a rule, generous and not greedy, but contented and moderate, so that estates, farms, workshops, and small trades tended to remain unchanged for generations.

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

In an unusual step, the script was further workshopped and developed with the cast during rehearsals.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 25, 2026

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

From BBC May 12, 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

In the professional theater world, you would say they have been workshopped.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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

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

“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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