conventions

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This constitutes what is now called “practical monetarism”—an updated form of monetarism that brings lessons from the past into contact with the accepted conventions of the present.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

But where its cinematic peers get snared by trying to elucidate the truth of the pop star, Lowery’s film skates past the conventions and trappings, landing on something high-concept but deceptively straightforward.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

Once he’d amassed a large number of them, he decided to start selling them, first at conventions, then beginning in 2023 at a physical location.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Today many of us are as likely to be disorientated by his fondness for folklore and myth, his assumptions about religion and social order, and his immersion in the conventions of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

It should be obvious that facts can both be unquestionable and only have meaning within certain discursive conventions: e.g.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton