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Thus began seven years of solitude in which he traded math conferences and departmental colloquia for his cluttered office at Princeton and, when possible, his attic study.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022

Steiner went to the seminars and the colloquia, absorbing everything, enjoying it.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2021

To take just one example, an analysis of six disciplines at leading US universities in 2013 and 2014 found that men gave colloquia disproportionately more often than women did.

From Nature • Oct. 8, 2018

But poets don’t want to be fodder for panels and colloquia, and Hutchinson’s poems are oppositional and disruptive, sometimes tauntingly so.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 13, 2016

Subsequent invitations to the research colloquia were not to be expected, and even the most casual questioning of Maurice would provoke the suspicion that we were at it again.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson