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conference

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


NOUN
league of athletic teams
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“He’s obviously a first baseman, and I’m on the left side, so defensively a little different,” Lowrance said of Freeman during a conference call with media.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 12, 2026

In April 2025, at a conference in Berkeley, he interrupted a presentation by Yoshua Bengio, a prominent academic working to make AI more compatible with human values.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Devon and Cornwall Police's Assistant Chief Constable Matt Longman told a press conference there was "no information that this is a politically motivated crime" and also confirmed the incident was not being treated as terror-related.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

Democratic Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia, who represents the district where the incident occurred, told the same press conference she had spoken with acting ICE director David Venturella.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

Jonah would be in the nonfiction section, near the conference room.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

When asked about future press conferences at his first meeting with reporters in June, Warsh said they are useful when you have something to say.

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 2026

A White House schedule for Trump’s trip lists bilateral meetings with Rutte and the leaders of Turkey, Syria and Ukraine, in between alliance-wide meals and conferences.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

Later that year, he twice froze during press conferences, stared into space, and had to be assisted.

From Slate Jul. 2, 2026

By escaping that category, climate change is making it harder to rein in inflation, even if it doesn’t appear on the agendas of economic conferences dominated by faster-moving risks like AI.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Traditionally, with rare exceptions, members of the media don’t applaud at press conferences, since it would be considered an endorsement of what the speaker is saying, rather than just reporting the information being given.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

Buck’s petition is expected to be conferenced by the U.S.

From Time Apr. 20, 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 said it had 30% growth in its channel pipeline.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 26, 2025

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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