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a select group of persons assigned to consider or take action on some matter assembled a prestigious panel to investigate ways to stem the rising cost of health care

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Recent Examples of panel The event is the culmination of season-long competition where marching band halftime shows are adjudicated by a panel of marching band experts. Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2024 In the ruling, the three-judge panel found that national security risks outweighed the argument put forth by TikTok and ByteDance that the law violates the First Amendment rights of millions of the video app’s users. Todd Spangler, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024 The background of the panel featured logos from Chevron, Samsung and Capcom. Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024 The shortlist is selected by a panel of music industry experts, including editors, critics, songwriters, producers and live bookers. Sophie Williams, Billboard, 5 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for panel 
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  • Fain has added his own twists, planning a once-a-year symposium that incorporates local women’s rights advocates, local therapists and a representative from A Call to Men.
    Matt Villano, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Image As part of the events program around the Neue Nationalgalerie show, the museum announced a daylong symposium to discuss how the conflict in Gaza was polarizing artists in Germany.
    Alex Marshall, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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  • These rankings to not project the conference championship games, the committee has been very hard on the teams that lose the Conference Championship game.
    Austin Mock, The Athletic, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Among the names that have been floated are Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who, at 35, would be the youngest committee leader.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Ernest Shackleton fascinates the English-speaking world like no other polar explorer, perhaps no other explorer period, and he’s inspired many books, several feature films and documentaries and countless leadership seminars.
    Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2024
  • This year’s schedule is TBA, but as always, expect appearances from filmmakers, seminars and post-screening parties.
    Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2024
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  • Over the years, countless commissions and initiatives have been launched to rein in government inefficiency and waste, yet almost all of them have failed, and not for lack of good intentions.
    Paul Winfree, National Review, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Purchases made through the links below may earn us and our publishing partners a commission.
    Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2024
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  • In that notebook, he is alleged to have written about wanting to target a CEO at a conference with a gun and expressed that such a method was preferable to other means — like a bomb or some other explosive device — so others wouldn’t be harmed.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Thompson, 50, was shot from behind on the sidewalk outside a New York City Hilton hotel Dec. 4 before a shareholder conference.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 12 Dec. 2024

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“Panel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panel. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.

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