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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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May I suggest a workshop on growing a conscience?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

The rhythmic clanging of hammers on bronze echoes through the Istanbul workshop where three craftsmen are landing blows with astonishing precision to transform featureless metal discs into highly prized handcrafted cymbals.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

In the jewellery workshop, quieter than the Royal Mint's coin-pressing halls where he used to work, 63-year-old John Powell carefully polishes a ring.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

The rising seniors were selected from Kelley’s already competitive roughly 60-student commercial real-estate workshop, in which students analyze deals and pitch them to mock committees.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

In the workshop scarfs and cushions as well as saris were embroidered.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

Now he’s married with seven kids and presides over something of an online personal-finance empire that includes an app, books, workshops and social-media communities.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

Jeselnik’s book club recommendations are eclectic and literary — the kind of titles name-dropped in MFA writing workshops and met with impressed nods at dinner parties.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

A dedicated Irish Language Hub at The Mac will include free taster classes, arts and crafts workshops, circus skills, family entertainment and a dedicated family room throughout the week.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

Hewlett bankrolled ELI’s 2018 workshops at Tianjin University, which was later placed on the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

As a result, she imagined that the pupils at her mother’s Thursday workshops were her uncles’ children.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

The musical will be further workshopped later this year, with the team aiming for the first public performances in 2027.

From BBC Apr. 21, 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

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

We also talked much about the Torrance 3 bus, Johnson’s “mental workspace” where, to and from practice in Long Beach, he wrote and workshopped many songs, including “Constant Headache.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2026

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

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

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

What did you learn about it from that reading, and since then by workshopping it all over the country?

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 2, 2025

She and her followers are workshopping a rebranding of sorts to reflect their point of view.

From Salon Apr. 1, 2025




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