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conference

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


NOUN
league of athletic teams
Synonyms


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John Healey told the Labour conference the facilities were vital to national security and would support domestic shipbuilding as part of a "new age of industrialisation".

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Hearn said there had been breaches of the agreement which needed to be resolved and cast doubt on whether Wednesday's news conference would go ahead.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Nineteen years ago he took over a Chicago Blackhawks team that was the youngest in the league and led it to the conference final.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Four months later, many of the same retreat attendees met up again for the San Francisco edition of Effective Altruism Global, a conference where people gathered to share ideas about how to help others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

“Now, if you don’t mind, I’m having a conference with my client.”

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

A relentless campaigner, he maintains a near-constant presence on pro-government television channels, embracing locals in tiny rural villages and chastising his critics during lengthy news conferences.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Between the two news conferences, Klopp looked like the busiest national team boss on the planet, making countless visits to league games and training facilities.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Cramer has been going to conferences related to extraterrestrial matters for years, and he knows that his audiences have always been “outside the mainstream.”

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

There’s press conferences, there’s briefings, and the public is informed about what could possibly happen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

"I'm getting sick of hourly press conferences," Annie whispered back.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

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

It lets me record calls by conferencing in a third-party number.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2024

On Monday, Trump had his pre-sentencing interview, conducted via video conferencing.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 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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