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Recent Examples of round-robin The eight-week Unrivaled season will see the teams play a round-robin schedule, with the top four teams making the playoffs. Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024 Each of these teams have played 20 matches, and will play a match a day round-robin style against the other three teams there to finish out the slate. Todd Boss, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024 All teams will play a five-week, round-robin schedule against the other teams in their division and to determine seeding for the playoffs, which begin in November. Erik Matuszewski, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024 For those who aren’t aware, B-Girl Raygun is the breakdancing handle of Rachael Gunn, PhD, a professor from Sydney who specializes in dance culture, but failed to advance past any of her three round-robin battles during the Paris Olympics. Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 17 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for round-robin 
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Locklear also participated in a solo panel at the convention, opening up about her love for tackling more rebellious characters — Melrose Place's Amanda Woodward, among them — in her acting work.
    Erin Clack, People.com, 7 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

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

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