convention

Ugarte supports the $2.6-billion Convention Center expansion passed by the City Council last year, arguing that the nation’s second-biggest city should have at least the second-best convention center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The vote was initially tied, with 45 members backing the motion and 45 opposed, requiring Presiding Officer Huw Irranca-Davies to cast the deciding vote against the proposal in line with parliamentary convention.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

At PokémonXP, the first official Pokémon fan convention held last month at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, Funko ran a Pop!

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

And behind the scenes, conversations continued over a particularly modest request: Let a Palestinian American be one of the 236 speakers to address the convention from the main stage.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Bass contends the project already is producing results, helping the city book major conventions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The arias follow the conventions of the period with plenty of coloratura and opportunities to show off, but Mozart’s preternatural ability to create character is already present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

He continued to appear at film conventions and published his memoir, Vagabond, last year in which he opened up about the medical incident and his prolonged recovery.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

Later, Michael and I became friends, and I came to admire him greatly, in no small measure because he rejected so many of the rather foolish conventions I once embraced.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela