as in panel
a select group of persons assigned to consider or take action on some matter
a committee in charge of planning the organization's annual Christmas party
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Recent Examples of committee
That extra set of cuts has not been parceled out to individual committees.
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Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
At least four committee members would have to vote in favor of Adams leaving.
—Javier Zarracina, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Catch up quick: Senate President Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, created the committee two years ago to vet Hobbs' agency head nominees.
—Jeremy Duda, Axios, 21 Feb. 2025
Ruby Franke's Family Set to Speak Out on Camera for First Time in Hulu's Docuseries Devil In The Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke
Tuesday's committee hearing wasn't the first time the Franke family opened up about their past.
—Skyler Caruso, People.com, 21 Feb. 2025
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Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
At least four committee members would have to vote in favor of Adams leaving.
—Javier Zarracina, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Catch up quick: Senate President Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, created the committee two years ago to vet Hobbs' agency head nominees.
—Jeremy Duda, Axios, 21 Feb. 2025
Ruby Franke's Family Set to Speak Out on Camera for First Time in Hulu's Docuseries Devil In The Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke
Tuesday's committee hearing wasn't the first time the Franke family opened up about their past.
—Skyler Caruso, People.com, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for committee
Noun
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Rebecca Bogart Ally Allen, who had watched the killer approach through a glass door panel, kept waking in the night with tears pouring down her face.—
Emily Baumgaertner Nunn,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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The exhibit includes cases with original artifacts as well as exhibit panels that have photographs and quotes and reproductions of paper objects.—
David Sharos,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The commission agreed to increase the numbers of mandatory pit stops in the Race.—
Kanzah Maktoum,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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Mullen is given wide, dictator-like powers that Congress and the president were seemingly overjoyed to hand over to the commission.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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House Bill 158 was introduced in the Iowa legislature last week and moved out of an Iowa House subcommittee on Tuesday where lawmakers anticipate changes to the bill, per the Iowa Capital Dispatch.—
James Factora,
Them,
19 Feb. 2025
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The ramifications would prove massive for the hundreds of Americans targeted by McCarthy’s investigations or called to testify before his Senate subcommittee.—
Made by History,
TIME,
9 Feb. 2025
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“Committee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/committee. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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