convention
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Trump turned his full attention to the election in September at the Republican Party's midterm convention.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Livieri met his wife at an American Ferret Association convention in Colorado.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Trump had made repeated campaign visits to Texas, including for the Republican midterm convention.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
The company is also breaking from earnings convention by reporting results on a Monday for the first time since 2015, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026
She doesn’t look at me when she says, “A science-fiction convention in Baltimore.”
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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"What I would emphasise is that our positions are based on human rights and are supported by international law and international conventions," Jabareen said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
Because autistic people take in the world differently, we’re apt to misunderstand, or miss entirely, the social cues and conventions that drive neurotypical social interactions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
He has the conventions of attractiveness, from his height to his pearly whites to the almost strategic amount of smile lines he has, but add them up and you somehow don’t leave with much.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
“Hands!” spoofs FX’s “The Bear,” while satirizing TV conventions, like the will-they-won’t-they romantic plotlines, multicamera operation and filming in front of a live studio audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Remember we always planned to attend one of the conventions but we never did.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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