icebreaker

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Recent Examples of icebreaker It was meant to be a friendly, low-stakes icebreaker; explained as an activity that Maezawa and his team frequently played together. Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025 An adequate European presence requires basing more infrastructure, rapid-reaction capabilities, reliable communications, and most urgently, icebreakers there. Michael E. O’Hanlon, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2025 It was meant to be a friendly, low-stakes icebreaker; explained as an activity that Maezawa and his team frequently played together. Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025 The Elimination Challenge With the icebreaker challenge behind them, the chefs faced their first elimination challenge, and the stakes were immediately raised. Buddha Lo, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for icebreaker
Recent Examples of Synonyms for icebreaker
Noun
  • Outdoor rooms unfurl beside their canopy—terraces for twilight suppers, a future pool deck pitched toward the lake breeze.
    Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • Director: Mark Wilson The Calling Witch is author and illustrator Meredith Laye’s most infamous creation, an evil woman whose siren call beckons children into the woods at night to become her supper.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The frames were built in Poland and shipped by a barge through the European river network to Marseille’s port on France’s southern coast for the contractor to pour the concrete to create 18 cubes.
    Mark Faithfull, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • These technologies include a bubble barrier that removes small fish trapped under barges or carried in their wake and an acoustic deterrent that creates painful sound waves.
    Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • The study didn’t find any significant link between drinking decaf coffee or tea and the likelihood of healthy aging.
    Chantelle Lee, Time, 3 June 2025
  • While the premiere episode of the season, which aired on Monday, June 2, did not divulge any details about the forthcoming drama, plenty of tea was spilled in the trailer.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Judge, who embraced Soto on the field pregame, also made a pretty play, laying out for a looping Francisco Lindor liner in the third.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 19 May 2025
  • When closed, the liner prevents most light from entering the room and provides complete privacy.
    Maggie Horton, People.com, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • Calm, collected, and claiming victory on state-run socials.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 13 May 2025
  • The rapper’s team shared the news on his socials on Wednesday (May 7).
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • Its data suggests the volume of crude oil and products, including refined fuels, in floating storage on tankers for seven days or longer has risen over the past month by 14% to more than 160 million barrels.
    Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
  • The tanker continued into the median, struck the median wall then continued west, approximately one-tenth of a mile, igniting on fire.
    Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • Whole armies could be hidden, fleets of warships could vanish on the high seas, and even whole cities could be built in the hinterland and kept secret.
    David Szondy May 31, New Atlas, 31 May 2025
  • Based on its silhouette, the researcher identified one of the warships as the Prince of Wales, positioned as the second ship in the single-line formation.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • The two-day event included a symposium on MMCF innovation, where experts discussed sustainable sourcing, circularity, and supply chain transparency through panels and speaking presentations.
    Cassell Ferere, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
  • The disease was officially named in 2012 at the premier symposium focused on IgG4-RD.
    David Oliver, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Icebreaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/icebreaker. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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