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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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He also vowed to conduct more aggressive reviews of the way nonprofits that do business with the city spend funds meant to aid unhoused citizens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

"This technique helped us confirm that manganese telluride was really exhibiting altermagnetic properties," said Rachel Nickel, postdoctoral scientist with ESRF, a co-author who helped design and conduct the experiment on the ID32 beamline.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Large law firms are typically loath to conduct layoffs, which can hurt their efforts to recruit future lawyers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

However, the family said they received a letter from the police watchdog in April, saying no officers would face a conduct or criminal investigation.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

“I will meself conduct you,” he said grandly.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

At about 0030 GMT Friday, Binance said all deposits and withdrawals had been "temporarily suspended while our team conducts security checks, freezes funds, and works with law enforcement."

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Cameron Berg is the founder of Reciprocal Research, a nonprofit that conducts empirical research on AI consciousness and welfare.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson said that the Defense Department conducts “extensive due diligence” before extending capital assistance.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

The airline conducts in-house psychology checks for first officers as they graduate to captain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Anchorman Walter Cronkite conducts an interview in Hue, Vietnam, for his CBS News Special Report on the war, 1968.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

Before joining the University of Missouri, Lin conducted experiments involving mice that carried APOE4.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

Dozens of RTÉ staff gathered outside the broadcaster's headquarters in Donnybrook earlier as gardaí conducted searches.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

We also conducted a new survey of women currently navigating infertility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The defense seized on those tests, conducted after the first trial, to argue that investigators reached their conclusion before testing it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Consider, for example, a remarkable social experiment conducted in the 1990s by a law professor in Chicago named Ian Ayres.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Handler cites her experience as a Dudamel Fellow, in 2024, conducting “Swan Lake” selections for the orchestra’s youth series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Asked Monday about Sunday's reported test, Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesperson Jang Do-young said South Korea and the United States were "closely coordinating and conducting a highly detailed analysis of its characteristics and specifications".

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

The company is conducting a feasibility study on the site and hopes to start production in 2030.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

According to the researchers, the foundation had no involvement in designing or conducting the study, analyzing or interpreting the results, or preparing the manuscript.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

A conducting, cylinder-shaped gas would be compressed by the zero-point fluctuations just as plates are forced together.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife


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