as in event
a social gathering
we're hosting a little shindig this weekend for some friends
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Most of the print reporters sat typing or eating takeout and refreshing the New York Times live blog, just in case anything interesting was happening at Trump’s shindig in Nashua.
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Kyle Paoletta, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
The event is expected to draw thousands of big and small-dollar donors to the iconic theater in Midtown Manhattan, and amounts to the biggest fundraising shindig of the presidential campaign so far.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2024
Höss has left a celebration — a kind of Nazi office party, as disturbingly mundane as any corporate holiday shindig — thrown in honor of a heinous new plan of his devising, a mass-extermination operation.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
One Minnesotan couple elevated the unveiling of the state's new flag Saturday with a shindig.
—James Powel, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
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Kyle Paoletta, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
The event is expected to draw thousands of big and small-dollar donors to the iconic theater in Midtown Manhattan, and amounts to the biggest fundraising shindig of the presidential campaign so far.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2024
Höss has left a celebration — a kind of Nazi office party, as disturbingly mundane as any corporate holiday shindig — thrown in honor of a heinous new plan of his devising, a mass-extermination operation.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
One Minnesotan couple elevated the unveiling of the state's new flag Saturday with a shindig.
—James Powel, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
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