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conduct

[kon-duhkt, kuhn-duhkt] / ˈkɒn dʌkt, kənˈdʌkt /




VERB
comport oneself
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG
WEAK


Usage

What are other ways to say conduct? To conduct is to precede or escort to a place, sometimes with a degree of ceremony: to conduct a guest to his room. Guide implies continuous presence or agency in showing or indicating a course: to guide a traveler. To direct is to give information for guidance, or instructions or orders for a course of procedure: to direct someone to the station. To lead is to bring onward in a course, guiding by contact or by going in advance; hence, figuratively, to influence or induce to some course of conduct: to lead a procession; to lead astray.

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“We will continue to conduct a thorough investigation alongside Hugging Face,” an OpenAI spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Local officials had issued the documents based on this information, raising questions about whether they failed to conduct adequate checks.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

"This is now part of the political will, that we intend to finish this code of conduct at the end of the year," she said.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Mohammad Bashir, 31, drove Jihad Al-Shamie on a 10-hour round trip to conduct hostile reconnaissance at the UK's Defence Academy in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, on 14 August 2025.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

From what we'd been told, they'd conduct extensive background checks into our immigration status.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

To complicate things, Murderbot has installed a mental-health module that conducts “emotion checks” whenever the cyborg’s organic-neural tissue starts to “generate weird chemicals and whatever.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

The MSF declined to answer the BBC's questions on whether it did any checks on the babies who entered Singapore and how it usually conducts checks on the adoptions of foreign children.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

Now with Soulcare, Fadel conducts multiple types of archery workshops in Portland and around the country, including in Colorado, Texas and throughout California.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

The NSF provides security for the base and routinely conducts emergency preparedness drills.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Both asked to remain unnamed because they were not authorized to publicly discuss LAHSA’s presentation, which focused on the results of this year’s annual point-in-time count conducted in January.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

But an Economist/YouGov poll conducted in recent days found that support diminishing.

From Slate Jul. 23, 2026

The prime minister has said that "no prisoners will be let out under this policy until we have conducted an urgent review and done everything we can to minimise risk to the public."

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Back in 2005, researchers conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in 46 patients with ulcerative colitis.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

This experiment is known as ‘Pascal’s barrel’, although there is no evidence he conducted it himself; he did conduct experiments designed to illustrate the principle involved, but that had already been described by Mersenne.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Ph.D. student Beomjoon Chae is conducting research on programmable photonic integrated circuits at the Intelligent Wave Systems Laboratory, SNU.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

While conducting espionage against sheikh’s tech company, Jonny Gannon helped Gulf country quash U.S. suspicions about China ties.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Jose Verdin, had been conducting an investigation of what police described as a known “flop house” in Van Nuys when they learned of Salehpour’s death there.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

Signature-matching technology is now good enough to “make your head explode,” said David Gerber, the senior vice president at ParaScript, a company that sells such technology to banks and numerous entities conducting elections.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

In 1602 Tycho Brahe published his Instruments for the Restoration of Astronomy, which provided elaborate illustrations of the new instruments he had devised for conducting astronomical observations.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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