conventions

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In his Lansdowne Portrait, Stuart ended up creating the image of the presidency before the presidency had visual conventions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

On Friday, Congolese Justice Minister Guillaume Andali said his country is seeking accountability for alleged breaches of conventions covering genocide prevention, racial discrimination, women's rights and torture.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026

These conventions molded the Reconstruction amendments in ways that originalist jurisprudence ignores.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2026

Born the fourth of five children in 1937 in Bradford, northern England, Hockney defied the conventions of post-war Britain, realising young that he was gay and wanted to be an artist.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

It’s just one way to display syntax on a page, and not a particularly good one, with user-unfriendly features such as scrambled word order and arbitrary graphical conventions.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker