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conference

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


NOUN
league of athletic teams
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“Avery Truesdale was a gifted baseball player who hit the walk off run for conference champ Arcadia in Logan’s freshman year,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Just two years ago, firefighters from across the world, including wildfire hotspots like Australia, Portugal and Spain, gathered in Aberdeen for a conference to share the knowledge and techniques.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

During an unrelated press conference Monday, the mayor said that his administration would follow local laws in making any determination about the legal authority to arrest Netanyahu.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said at a press conference on Wednesday.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

Talks resumed the next morning in a conference room at the Soviet embassy.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

WSJ: As an ACC school, Louisville certainly doesn’t have equivalent resources, as the table stakes for being competitive escalates, to Big Ten or SEC schools, whose conferences are billion-dollar businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

Powell stepped up the frequency of press conferences to every meeting in January 2019 — a change from his two immediate predecessors, who held them four times a year.

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

She was preoccupied, and often stood in the quadrangle by men’s surgical, in long conferences with her counterpart, or she disappeared for two days at a time.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

On Dec. 9, the court conferenced and took a split vote.

From New York Times Feb. 15, 2023

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

From Washington Times Feb. 24, 2020

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

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

You’ll have no trouble streaming 4K content, downloading large files or video conferencing on these connections.

From Salon Dec. 10, 2025

The video conferencing company said it had 30% growth in its channel pipeline.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 26, 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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