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conviction

[kuhn-vik-shuhn] / kənˈvɪk ʃən /




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Ali argued that successful films are defined less by genre than by the conviction behind them.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

A California Court of Appeals upheld her conviction, and she has appealed to the state Supreme Court.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

"Our conviction in this AI megatrend is very strong. We talk to the customers and also the customers' customers… who are mainly the hyper-scalers," he said.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Treasury must sustain its conviction that properly deployed, economic power profoundly complements traditional military and diplomatic tools.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Pita’s words, her conviction that the donkey could speak and she could understand him, made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up to alert.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall




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