convention
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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
It also raised questions about the effectiveness of holding an unprecedented midterm convention in the first place.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 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
Numerous lawmakers in competitive races chose to remain in their districts rather than spend valuable campaign time in Dallas, while both convention nights were facing competition from the opening games of the NFL season.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The old Antifederalist coalition that Madison had opposed so effectively at the Virginia ratifying convention in 1788 believed with some justification that their cause had never really been defeated, merely outmaneuvered.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
“We go to conventions and we meet families where grandparents and parents and kids and grandkids are all watching our shows together.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
And in the modern technological era, artificial-intelligence models add a new wrinkle to corporate conventions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Following the conventions of the last decade’s headlines, is being a millennial simply anything you don’t like?
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
He concentrated on voice acting and continued to appear at film conventions.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Although lexicographers have neither the desire nor the power to prevent linguistic conventions from changing, this does not mean, as purists fear, that they cannot state the conventions in force at a given time.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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