Thesaurus results for GUILD

guild

noun

ˈgild

variants also gild

Definition of guild

as in organization

a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest after his apprenticeship, he was able to join the stonemasons' guild

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Recent Examples of guild Oysters are flown in from both Delaware and Rhode Island, according to sous chef Brandon Henry who is also the only oyster guild awarded chef in Missouri. — Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026 If your dates are flexible, consider this an excellent time to visit the city, while staying in a hotel with some very rich guild history of its own. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2026 Some guilds, like the Directors Guild of America, celebrated the verdict as a win, while others, like the Writers Guild of America, felt disappointed that the merger is one step closer to becoming reality. — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026 The guild started during the great depression as a way for artists to sell their work. — Eva Flowe, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for guild

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Noun

One of the largest donors to a pop-up super PAC supporting Muslim or pro-Palestinian candidates is the president of an Islamic organization that collects obligatory religious donations mandated by Sharia law.

— Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026
The Union of Palestinian Women's Committees and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association were both among the groups targeted, officials with the organizations said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of organization

Noun

The clash added another layer to a campaign in which el Sayed’s positions on foreign policy and his associations with prominent progressive figures have become points of contention.

— Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
The hospitality and hotel sector is one of Europe’s largest employers, with more than 10 million people working across 2 million businesses, according to data from Hotrec, the association of hotels, restaurants, bars, and cafés in Europe.

— Ted Kitterman, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of association

Noun

This year there are 339 exhibiting companies and institutions from 32 countries and territories, 17% more than last year.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
The result is a country spending heavily to sustain its public institutions while struggling to deliver the services citizens expect and a political system increasingly consumed by conflict over how to fix them.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of institution

Noun

But what begins as a bold and daring attempt to broach progressive issues in a notoriously conservative society ultimately loses its nerve, acquiescing to a number of eyebrow-raising narrative compromises.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
In countries where heat practices are deeply interwoven into society — such as Finland and Japan — public funding has supported some of this research.

— Will Stone, NPR, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of society

Noun

Last Energy, a commercial spinoff of Energy Impact Center, a clean energy institute based in Washington, DC, is building a pilot facility at Texas A&M RELLIS with a nuclear core that will also feature in its commercial-scale reactors.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
What illness, which the institute studies, has been the subject of speculation about her death?

— New York Times, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of institute

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The 911 call recordings, as reported by the Associated Press, showed that first responders and prison officials did not know whether a request for emergency help from within the execution chamber was legitimate.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2026
For the Duo, the team created a different vapor chamber that's thinner than the one in the iPhone 18 Pro.

— Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of chamber

Noun

Their evolving brotherhood was tested unexpectedly in 2010, when guitarist SHOW-HATE collapsed from a stroke immediately after a SiM concert in Sapporo, Hokkaido.

— Steve Appleford, SPIN, 12 Oct. 2026
Men of honor, with full-body tattoos and missing fingers, exchanging sake cups in elaborate brotherhood rituals, were becoming a bit passé, even as a fantasy.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

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