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conferences



NOUN
league of athletic teams
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WSJ: As an ACC school, Louisville certainly doesn’t have equivalent resources, as the table stakes for being competitive escalates, to Big Ten or SEC schools, whose conferences are billion-dollar businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

Powell stepped up the frequency of press conferences to every meeting in January 2019 — a change from his two immediate predecessors, who held them four times a year.

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 2026

A White House schedule for Trump’s trip lists bilateral meetings with Rutte and the leaders of Turkey, Syria and Ukraine, in between alliance-wide meals and conferences.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

He said there were teams like his "all over the place" and when they come together at conferences, "you realise you're part of a much bigger effort".

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

Being an engineer, Mary Jackson would eventually learn, meant being the only black person, or the only woman, or both, at industry conferences for years.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly



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