icebreaker

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Recent Examples of icebreaker Create 5 engaging icebreaker questions that inspire big thinking and relate to our work. Jodie Cook, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024 So our icebreaker for the show or within the show will be a hypothetical. Okla Jones, Essence, 4 Dec. 2024 Tennis icon Naomi Osaka plays an icebreaker game at a recent event for her Play Academy initiative, which aims to increase the participation of girls in sports. Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 4 Nov. 2024 And this obviously is for social icebreaker situations. Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for icebreaker 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for icebreaker
Noun
  • After the supper is over, the crew sticks around to cook the meal again, this time enjoying it together.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Conversation over the supper table was always lively, our mother Mary very much held her own, meanwhile, David was ready with a reference book to look up something that was being disputed.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Blue Origin will attempt to land New Glenn’s first stage booster on a barge in the ocean 10 minutes after liftoff while its second stage heads into orbit.
    William Gavin, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2025
  • This month, construction crews on barges, drills, cranes, tugs and service vessels will begin drilling to collect soil samples and map subsurface waterways.
    Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Burning Blake Alex Boyd Some people would burn Blake to boil tea, if need be.
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
  • This Journal, which sold over 3 million copies, encouraged pre-teens and up to be creative by literally destroying the pages in the notebook with tea, scissors, water, dirt, and other mediums usually avoided by journalers.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In the 2020 North Complex Fire, plastic liners in the water tanks melted.
    Pien Huang, NPR, 11 Jan. 2025
  • What strikes me most about the Hermès eyeliner and lip liner are their respective shade ranges, which, in my eyes, are created in meticulous fashion.
    Claire Sullivan, WWD, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • My kids are actively involved in Friday night socials, free skating on Sunday afternoons, as well as lessons to fine tune their skills on the ice.
    Vanessa Gordon, Parents, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Yes, but: The shop never opened, its socials have been dormant since March and no one responded to our requests for an update.
    Karri Peifer, Axios, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Nic Lynn, Neptune Aviation’s vice president of operations, said three of the company's air tankers are in use in Southern California.
    Terry Dickerson, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2025
  • News journal Lloyd's List reported in December that the tanker is part of a fleet circumventing sanctions on Russian trading.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Pentagon expected the warship to be operational in the first half of 2025. What To Know Photos taken by Chinese ship spotters showed the Fujian returned to Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, where it was constructed in 2017 and launched, from its sixth sea trial.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The shortfall is so severe that warship production is down to its lowest level in a quarter century.
    Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The efforts by the Dow Chemical multinational corporation to address plastic waste and provide clean water solutions in West Africa could have been enhanced by researchers’ works shared at a Uruguayan symposium – only it wasn’t translated into English.
    HEC Paris Insights, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Against the backdrop of a debate over Goldin’s show in Germany, the artist previously bowed out of speaking at a symposium on antisemitism, Islamophobia, and the war in Gaza, according to the German press agency dpa.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 22 Nov. 2024

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“Icebreaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/icebreaker. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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