convention
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Calling out L.A. establishment shibboleths like the pricey convention center renovation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Livieri met his wife at an American Ferret Association convention in Colorado.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
The alleged violations of the convention "are a stain on our collective conscience and it would be irresponsible to pretend that it is not our business," Jallow said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 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
The Sunday morning before the convention, four of the five women gathered around a circular mahogany table in McClintock’s parlor to plan the program.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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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
And in the high-fashion world, model Gabbriette Bechtel embodies the edginess of contemporary Latina Goth looks, one that upends vintage Chicana beauty conventions by pushing them into a more avant-garde space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 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
Bebop defied these conventions on several layers: solos increasingly drifted away from the chord sequence and even the key-family of the original song, and they habitually veered off from the given song melody, too.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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