convention
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Livieri met his wife at an American Ferret Association convention in Colorado.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
The alleged violations of the convention "are a stain on our collective conscience and it would be irresponsible to pretend that it is not our business," Jallow said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
The company is also breaking from earnings convention by reporting results on a Monday for the first time since 2015, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026
“Every once in a while, I’m at a convention and someone will put it on and I’ll do a few lines of it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
This convention differed from previous women’s rights conventions in that men could not address the audience.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
De Meo said "Balenciaga has always been a House of radical creativity, challenging conventions and redefining the boundaries of fashion."
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
He has the conventions of attractiveness, from his height to his pearly whites to the almost strategic amount of smile lines he has, but add them up and you somehow don’t leave with much.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
He defied recording studio conventions by bringing in natural light through large, soundproof windows instead of working in chambers sealed on all sides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
His Red Special presidential campaign train in 1908 and his Socialist Party conventions were riots of red flags, pennants and bunting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The conventional wisdom at the time held that expressions were culturally determined—that is, we simply used our faces according to a set of learned social conventions.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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