as in social
likely to seek or enjoy the company of others
the hiking club attracts a wide range of convivial people who share a love of the outdoors
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Recent Examples of convivial
The message behind it all: Wine is convivial and fun and fits into your lifestyle.
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Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2025
Greg Gumbel, the affable and low-key sportscaster who for more than five decades was a convivial play-by-play voice and studio host for N.F.L. games, Super Bowls, the Olympics and, most memorably, the madness that descends on college basketball every March, died on Friday at his home in Davie, Fla.
—Michael S. Rosenwald, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
Today it’s dotted with coffee shops and galleries, family-run groceries and chic restaurants, all anchored by a convivial atmosphere.
—Sahar Khan, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
The authentic storytelling these players offer, linked to nature and evoking a simple, slow lifestyle, as well as their ability to create feel-good moments around convivial occasions without the razzmatazz often surrounding fashion events is what the designer appreciates most.
—Sandra Salibian, WWD, 2 Dec. 2024
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Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2025
Greg Gumbel, the affable and low-key sportscaster who for more than five decades was a convivial play-by-play voice and studio host for N.F.L. games, Super Bowls, the Olympics and, most memorably, the madness that descends on college basketball every March, died on Friday at his home in Davie, Fla.
—Michael S. Rosenwald, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
Today it’s dotted with coffee shops and galleries, family-run groceries and chic restaurants, all anchored by a convivial atmosphere.
—Sahar Khan, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
The authentic storytelling these players offer, linked to nature and evoking a simple, slow lifestyle, as well as their ability to create feel-good moments around convivial occasions without the razzmatazz often surrounding fashion events is what the designer appreciates most.
—Sandra Salibian, WWD, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convivial
Adjective
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Our customers are eager for books and discussions about literature, art, and social issues.—
American Booksellers Association,
USA TODAY,
9 Feb. 2025
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Coming from a filmmaker with a background in video art and large-scale installations, the film uses 3D scanning and AI to explore questions of dispossession and social control through the prism of a commonplace police identity check.—
Ben Croll,
Variety,
8 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The outgoing model has a small (by today's standards) 4.7-inch screen with a resolution of 1,334 by 750 pixels.—
Eric Zeman,
PCMAG,
14 Feb. 2025
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The billionaire said the Treasury Department and DOGE had agreed to require all outgoing government payments to include a rationale in the form of a comment and to have a categorization code.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Meanwhile, the Baltimore around him doesn’t feel that hospitable anymore anyway.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
30 Jan. 2025
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The weather will be more hospitable than last week’s game against the Houston Texans.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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For a while, the team sits together in the truck, watching in companionable silence as the lumbering giants disappear, one by one, into the trees.—
Tommy Trenchard,
NPR,
8 Dec. 2024
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The companionable dynamics in his scenes with Melling and Kene are a treat and help to leaven the languor that sets in the back-half of the run-time.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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But even that, an idea borrowed from other states, the federal government and even the city of Chicago, failed to get traction, another example of lawmakers and friendly lobbyists showing little appetite for changing how Springfield does business.—
Megan Crepeau,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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The 20-year-old was called up to the Trinidad & Tobago national team in December for a friendly against Saudi Arabia.—
Braidon Nourse,
The Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2025
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