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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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Anne Martens, a workshop attendee as well as an artist and poet, said the idea of surveillance and dissident art intrigues her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

The Leica factory is half high-tech clean room, half old-world workshop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

A giant clay sculpture of Pope Leo XIV's head takes shape in a workshop in Peru's capital, as the Andean nation prepares for the pontiff's visit in November.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

It previously housed the company's machining shop and later its research and development workshop.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Taking the keys from my pocket, I hurried down to the hall, unlocked the workshop door, and felt my way through the dark store.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Sophisticated munitions like the Tomahawk hold thousands of parts, and move through factories that look more like small workshops than automated production lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Taught by L.A.-based artist and poet Kate Ingold, the workshops center on samizdat, a practice in which Soviet dissidents hand-typed literature, criticism and poetry to bypass state censorship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Harriet Thomas had applied for a stand at the Abergavenny Food Festival on previous years, and was "really excited" when an email came offering her the opportunity to book a place for her knitting workshops.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The event is being held at The Hub at the station, which opened in May last year to help people in crisis, and activities include poetry performances, gardening workshops, art and music.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Each Friday, the whole group of Allies gathered at one of our host agency’s offices, taking a full day to debrief, connect, and go through a series of professional development workshops.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Under Warsh’s predecessor, Jerome Powell, the two vice chairs helped build support for a policy proposal they workshopped ahead of the meeting, giving markets a read on their thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

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

Videos appeared to show a man telling demonstrators that the chant had been "workshopped" in Oxford.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025

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

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2025

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

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Reality, having already borrowed the premise, apparently decided to keep workshopping it.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Finland’s president and Norway’s prime minister started workshopping their text messages to Trump, talking about which words they should render in capital letters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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

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

Markwayne Mullin has a brilliantly dumb idea he’s workshopping.

From Slate ● May 30, 2026




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