noun
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the hearth
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family life; the home
Etymology
Origin of fireside
Example Sentences
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The fireside chat was scheduled for Wednesday evening in Davos, which is nine hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time, with media outlet Fortune.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026
“Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me,” he said at a fireside chat at Harvard University two years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
We aren't keeping count, but we're pretty sure more players than ever requested to be traitors this year during their fireside chats with Winkleman.
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2026
Early this month, SEC Chair Paul Atkins and Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman said in a fireside chat that they want to “make IPOs great again,” including by easing disclosure requirements for small issuers.
From Barron's • Dec. 30, 2025
If so, then he must have misunderstood half and not understood the rest of what I told him by my fireside in the Palace, the night after the Ceremony of the Keystone.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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