How to Use plenary in a Sentence

plenary

adjective
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  • A plenary meeting of the 500 members was held last summer.
  • Such an election was last held at a PNC plenary session in 1996 in Gaza.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2018
  • The exact time and date of the plenary session will be announced later.
    — Atlanta Life, ajc, 2 May 2017
  • And by the way, Mr. Garland had described David Weiss's running room as sort of plenary, right?
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The parliament agreed to pass the omnibus bill on jobs in a plenary meeting on Monday.
    — Grace Sihombing, Bloomberg.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • At the time of the March 8 plenary session, GaaSyy was out of the country, according to local media.
    — Tara Subramaniam, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
  • All plenary sessions will be made available via live stream on obama.org.
    — Tanya A. Christian, Essence, 2 Dec. 2019
  • In both instances, the law of the land gives white men on horseback plenary power over Black people in flight for survival.
    — Alicia Schmidt Camacho, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2022
  • It was agreed upon exactly eight years ago on Dec. 12 to a standing ovation at the plenary.
    — Sibi Arasu, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Bolsonaro was in the country’s capital of Brasilia that day for two plenary votes, the report said.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
  • The votes were finalized at the plenary session Tuesday.
    — National Geographic, 3 Oct. 2016
  • North Korea’s plenary session was organized to check the progress of the nation’s key policies.
    — Andrew Jeong, WSJ, 16 June 2021
  • Bellow said the teens have a full schedule this week of plenary sessions, workshops and volunteer work.
    — Marc Lester, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 June 2017
  • The question comes from someone in the audience who has followed me after the plenary session of the Open Book Festival.
    — Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Bon Appétit, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The move isn’t final but is a key sign before an official decision at its plenary this week.
    — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The states have plenary police power to regulate health and safety.
    — David B. Rivkin Jr. and Robert Alt, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The vote was finalized at the plenary session on October 4.
    — Jani Actman, National Geographic, 28 Sep. 2016
  • Congress will hold a plenary session on March 22 to hear the president’s defense, debate the motion and hold a final vote.
    — John Quigley, Bloomberg.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • At the blockbuster plenary sessions, the chairs stretched so far back that even the most youthful Silicon Valley college dropouts-turned VC hoovers had to squint to see the action up in front.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 13 July 2018
  • President Donald Trump sits alone at the beginning of the plenary session of the G20 summit on Friday.
    — Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 8 July 2017
  • The conference's plenary sessions are being livestreamed on YouTube.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The parliament’s plenary would then vote on the issue in early October.
    — Frank Jordans, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
  • In between those gatherings, the party holds seven plenums, or plenary sessions, each with its own theme.
    — NBC News, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Albert Zeufack, the World Bank’s chief Africa economist, said at a plenary session at the forum.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The move isn’t final but is a key sign before an official decision at its plenary this coming week.
    — Maria Cheng and Jamey Keaten, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Bolsonaro was in the country’s capital of Brasilia that day for two plenary votes, the program reported.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • All plenary sessions, and several breakouts, will be live streamed and archived for later viewing.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Guardianships will be plenary, which is for personal care and financial, or general, which will be for one or the other.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Cobb was invited to be the plenary speaker wrapping up a major ocean sciences conference next year in San Diego.
    — Seth Borenstein, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2019
  • During last year’s AU summit, an Israeli delegate was unceremoniously removed from the plenary hall amid a row over the country’s observer status at the continental body.
    — NBC News, 18 Feb. 2024

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