convention

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

Republicans had never held a midterm convention before.

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

Many of them were in Washington, DC, to attend a convention of the National Woman’s Party, but they wanted to show their support for suffrage by marching with the picketers.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

The gathering was just two days, but still had the look and feel of the traditional four-day conventions staged by both parties in presidential election years.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

In spite of its quarter-mile heights, Windows on the World deviated from lofty and pretentious fine-dining conventions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Presidential candidates typically don’t spend much time in the arena at conventions.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

And in the modern technological era, artificial-intelligence models add a new wrinkle to corporate conventions.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

In theory—that is, as a simple physical possibility—an animal could pick up and go, flaunting all the social conventions and boundaries proper to its species.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel