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The Symposium

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  1. A dialogue by Plato, in which Socrates and several other men at a banquet discuss love.


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He left the symposium profoundly shaken by what he’d seen.

From The Wall Street Journal

Defeo presented these findings during the symposium's first scientific session, dedicated to oceanographic sciences.

From Science Daily

Despite the consistent strengths of all the “Symposium” men, Takumi Miyake’s performance in a role that might classify as the most boyish demands singling out.

From The Wall Street Journal

When pressed about the data at the arbitration, Lindell’s fact witness, Todd Sanders, claimed that the packet data had been transformed into a spreadsheet that had also been given to the cyber experts at the symposium.

From Slate

Researchers at the symposium debated what to do about school being boring.

From Los Angeles Times