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conference

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


NOUN
league of athletic teams
Synonyms


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At a news conference in August in Los Angeles, the fighters got into an exchange that forced UFC president Dana White to intervene.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

State governor Mohammed Umaru Bago called the deaths "sad and tragic" during a press conference on Thursday.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

Investors are focusing on the Bank of Japan’s policy meeting and Gov. Kazuo Ueda’s press conference later Friday to infer the pace of future rate increases.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

The United manager was again asked about Gabriel on Friday at his news conference to preview Sunday's Premier League match against Fulham.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

She went straight from the climate conference in Harrisburg to her friend Amber’s house for the rest of the weekend, so I’ve barely seen her since early Saturday morning.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

"People will come up to us at conferences and state that you can't target the mitochondria because they're too important," said Gibson.

From Science Daily Sep. 17, 2026

He pointedly allowed just one question each from journalists who in past news conferences got to ask follow-ups.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

But that highly-profitable model is currently crumbling as courts are increasingly treating college athletic conferences as cartels engaged in anti-competitive price-fixing.

From Salon Sep. 15, 2026

He rarely issued press releases, didn’t convene news conferences, and disliked raising campaign money.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

He died on June 14, 1924, three days before he was to sail for Europe for the two conferences.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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

Contracts awarded to Oricom Ltd, founded by Adam Sharoudi and Gavin Brown, for telecoms and video conferencing equipment between 2010 and 2017 breached rules on financial wrongdoing during the tendering process.

From BBC Apr. 29, 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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