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conference

[kon-fer-uhns, -fruhns] / ˈkɒn fər əns, -frəns /


NOUN
league of athletic teams
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It happened in a bar in Madrid, where Goodwin and Mummery were attending a scientific conference.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

She said she had attended the Labour Party conference and went to a fringe event where she said she spoke to Brand.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Riyadh usually hosts a packed calendar of events this time of year, including its flagship investment conference drawing foreign leaders and business titans.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

One day earlier, a Saudi employee of OpenAI, Abdulrahman Alfozan, was charged with trying to record audio using a device planted behind a TV set in a company conference room.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

When Mom and Jack met with his teacher for their conference, she proudly reported that Connor is a confident and popular boy, with excellent skills in spelling and math.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

He is allergic to the presumption that anyone, including the Fed, can fine-tune the economy, and invoked the Lucas critique at one of his first news conferences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Commons sits on Monday for the first time since 15 September, having been in recess during some of the party conferences.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Press conferences on consecutive days underline her message: “strong demand for more compute,” “AI is incredibly good for the world,” and “memory is overall supply-constrained.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

More than 30 million people watched January's college football national championship on TV while the major conferences -- regional groupings of universities that organize competition and negotiate media rights -- have signed multibillion-dollar broadcasting contracts.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

One can even imagine agitated conferences in the Pentagon, new agreements in Geneva.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

He whispered to one of his attorneys while his lead lawyers, Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Marc Agnifilo, conferenced with the judge and prosecutors at the front of the courtroom.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

Which gets us to that footnote, in which Justice Alito writes, “That constitutional question was argued and conferenced nearly seven months ago.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

Gomes telephoned his mother, who then allegedly conferenced Price into the call, prosecutors said.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 24, 2020

With two other colleagues conferenced in, they discussed the possibility of a byline strike.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2016

I have already conferenced with Rae, and now Ethan’s conference is going over.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

The video conferencing company also bumped up its guidance for the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

She’s missed only a handful of the energy siting council’s monthly meetings in the past decade, driving all around the state before video conferencing became common.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025

Sharoudi became friends with Hush, who was telecommunications manager at NHS Lothian and then NHS Scotland video conferencing manager.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025

Neufeld is in the process of fine-tuning a Zoom-based edition of “Code Green,” hoping the video conferencing service could help expose it to nonstudents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

After sitting for an interview, Nilekani gave our TV crew a tour of Infosys’s global conferencing center—ground zero of the Indian outsourcing industry.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman


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