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

In 2028, the agency will have to deal with the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the presidential election, including two nominating conventions.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 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

Once you understand that prescriptive rules are the conventions of a specialized form of the language, most of the iptivist controversies evaporate.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker