convention
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Changing rates near an election isn’t unusual; the central bank raised rates before a political convention in 1988 and ahead of elections in 1994, 2004, 2018 and in 2022, when Joe Biden was president.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Taking the California Democratic Party convention stage in February, Barrera, president of the San Diego Unified Board of Education, gave a quick shout-out to the California Teachers Assn. for backing his bid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Never one to cede the spotlight, Trump returned to the stage on Thursday night after Vance to round off the convention.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
On Wednesday, he appeared by video at Trump’s midterm convention and pledged to work with the president to help Pennsylvania.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
But the delegates from the slave states threatened to walk out of the convention if they did not get this important concession.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Presidential candidates typically don’t spend much time in the arena at conventions.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
In 1971, Steinem co-founded Ms. magazine, run exclusively by women, for women, and born from conversations with other women writers who’d grown exhausted with the belittling conventions and blind spots of male-dominated media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
And in the modern technological era, artificial-intelligence models add a new wrinkle to corporate conventions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
He concentrated on voice acting and continued to appear at film conventions.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The key is to recognize that the rules of usage are tacit conventions.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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