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conduct

[kon-duhkt, kuhn-duhkt] / ˈkɒn dʌkt, kənˈdʌkt /




VERB
comport oneself
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG
WEAK


Usage

What are other ways to say conduct? To conduct is to precede or escort to a place, sometimes with a degree of ceremony: to conduct a guest to his room. Guide implies continuous presence or agency in showing or indicating a course: to guide a traveler. To direct is to give information for guidance, or instructions or orders for a course of procedure: to direct someone to the station. To lead is to bring onward in a course, guiding by contact or by going in advance; hence, figuratively, to influence or induce to some course of conduct: to lead a procession; to lead astray.

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Phone numbers associated with the Perfect Child were disconnected or answered with an automated recording saying no one was available, including some used to conduct business as recently as Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

The complaint seeks to hold Altman “personally liable” for his conduct as OpenAI’s chief executive, “including his utter disregard for the risk to human life” allegedly caused by OpenAI’s conduct.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

To conduct the research, the team relied on long-read DNA sequencing technology, which can analyze DNA segments ranging from about 10,000 base pairs to more than one million base pairs in length.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

And the court continues to conduct itself as though Trump is a rational actor who will hear a no as a no.

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026

To America, Able Archer 83 was a mock exercise—neither the first nor the last that it would conduct during the Cold War.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau




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