conventional
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The most powerful are Ahmad Vahidi, the head of the Revolutionary Guard, the country’s paramilitary force, and Ali Abdollahi, commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s joint command with the conventional army.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Unlike conventional textiles, where color is applied through dyeing, sea silk generates its golden hue from the arrangement of proteins within the fiber itself.
From Science Daily • Jun. 12, 2026
Many feel more like mini-movies than conventional commercials.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
That means that even if an ECB hike under conventional economics wouldn’t make too much of a dent to activity, the act of signaling will pack a punch.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Swift had read Cyrano, and Gulliver is a cunning variation on the by then conventional themes of science fiction, one in which islands are substituted for planets.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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