as in amphitheater
a large room or building for enclosed public gatherings will hold the town meeting in the high school auditorium

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Recent Examples of auditorium The production uses the same set designer as in Denver, Brian Sidney Bembridge, but the art gallery setting and the play’s blocking have had to be revised considerably since the Denver Center has a shallow proscenium and Hartford Stage has a deep thrust stage as well as a larger auditorium. Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Mar. 2025 Last year, Emma Stone was left stranded in the lobby bar when her film went on an awards-winning streak − taking three major awards without the star applauding from her front-row auditorium seat. Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025 The awards show went on against the odds but there was further drama on the night when actress Adèle Haenel and director Céline Sciamma stormed out of the auditorium in protest at the Best Director win for Polanski. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 28 Feb. 2025 In addition, the meetings will be moved from the Point Loma/Hervey Library, where they have been conducted for the past year, to the Ocean Beach Elementary School auditorium at 4741 Santa Monica Ave. Steven Mihailovich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for auditorium
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Noun
  • The Otis Redding Center for the Arts is a state-of-the-art, 15,000 square-foot facility housing seven creative labs, five private lesson rooms, an amphitheater and the O3 Recording Studio.
    Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 13 Mar. 2025
  • That massive, ancient, slightly crumbling but still standing amphitheater in Rome?
    Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • With global sales lagging too, the film won’t be able to reach profitability in theaters.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Set five years after Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), the summer blockbuster is set to bow in theaters July 2.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • As the town hall wrapped up at 8 p.m., Kiley apologized to the many callers who were unable to join.
    Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 18 Mar. 2025
  • At the town hall, Karamehmedovic said that the show was not being pulled, according to a source at the meeting.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2025

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“Auditorium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auditorium. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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