convene
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The two sides will convene for two days, Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Bruna Subashi, an energetic woman in her 40s, asked to convene in a luridly pink dessert parlor on Vlore’s waterfront called Big Scoop.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
“National leaders should convene economists, technologists, labor experts, business leaders and workers themselves regularly to identify where existing institutions are failing and what new authorities may be needed,” he continued.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Well in advance of the looming 2032 deadline, Congress and the administration should convene a bipartisan commission to produce balanced proposals for stabilizing the system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
You convene in the rec room, and each day you beg and bargain with them to take you away.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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Warsh this week presided over his second meeting of the 12-person Federal Open Market Committee, which convenes in Washington eight times a year to determine where to set interest rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
He said he’d be very surprised if all the election results weren’t certified by Jan. 3, when the new Congress convenes, given the legal remedies available to prevent stalling and undue delay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
Similar summits took place last season as the club's hierarchy once again convenes for department meetings and discussions about future plans, including long-term infrastructure projects.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
On Thursdays, he convenes an interagency discussion of the latest threats.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026
I’ll have to catch him later, when our team convenes.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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He made the comments at a summit he had convened at Dumfries House in Scotland to discuss how the tech can be used to benefit society.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Nandy convened a meeting with social media firms on Tuesday afternoon to discuss such abuse, but she called social media company X a "disgrace" for failing to turn up.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Former Deputy Mayor of Economic Development William “Billy” Chun convened recurring meetings between the museum’s development team and senior officials from Building and Safety, Public Works, the Department of Water and Power and other agencies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Faced with the threat, Zelensky convened his military cabinet last week to speed up the production of faster interceptor drones.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
The city convened a coroner’s inquest, which focused its attention on the building’s design.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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But “The Real Food Show” cannot recommend a salad dressing without first convening a tribunal.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
A duo for the ages is convening once again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Access to one of the world’s richest men, with his deep-pocketed foundation and unmatched convening power in global health, would have lent Epstein the legitimacy he was seeking after his 2008 conviction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Utahns have also deluged Cox with thousands of letters in opposition, while regularly convening on the state Capitol with unflattering signs featuring O’Leary and Cox.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026
Whenever the Parliament clashed with their monarch, the king would get his way by suddenly convening Parliament in a remote, unreachable part of the country.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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