conventionally

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“Girls Like Girls” may be conventionally imagined, but there’s an admirable focus on unadorned warmth in Kiyoko’s storytelling: She likes her girls and cares enough to want us to like them, too.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026

China's capacity to strike Australia would grow over the next decade as "the DF-27 intermediate-range ballistic missile, and potentially a conventionally armed intercontinental ballistic missile, grow in service numbers", it said.

From Barron's • Jun. 14, 2026

Just produce that isn’t conventionally beautiful enough to command full price.

From Salon • May 22, 2026

A conventionally powered ship might need to reduce its speed to use these types of weapons.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

North and South America are conventionally regarded as separate continents, but they have been connected for several million years, pose similar historical problems, and may be considered together for comparison with Eurasia.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond