conventions

Example Sentences

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“You were the voice of my childhood” is a phrase that actor Larry Brantley hears often when meeting fans at pop culture conventions.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

“I predict…failure,” he said, describing party conventions in general as “sartorial freak shows.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

"Comic and sci-fi conventions are a big pull for geeky people."

From BBC • May 21, 2026

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

Although lexicographers have neither the desire nor the power to prevent linguistic conventions from changing, this does not mean, as purists fear, that they cannot state the conventions in force at a given time.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker