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News of people passed on in a meeting like this (6)

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I believe the answer is:

seance

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'news of people passed on in a meeting like this' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'a meeting like this' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'a' could be 'an' and 'an' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for seance that I've seen before include "Spiritualist sitting" , "Dead-contacting session" , "Spiritualist session with medium in charge" , "Meeting for communicating with spirits" , "Medium experience?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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