convocation
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In his fall 1971 convocation address at the University of Alberta, McLuhan told students that in an electronic world, people become “discarnate data, a sort of disembodied spirit coexisting and functioning simultaneously in diverse locations.”
From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025
The 100-year-old annual honors convocation at the University of Michigan is typically a decorous affair, with a pipe organ accompanying golf-clap applause.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024
Los Angeles comedians joined the seventh 21-and-over convocation of dark comedians and listeners who adore them at Notoriety, a former third-floor multiplex of the Neonopolis center on downtown’s Fremont Street.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2023
Those include new training at freshman orientations, faculty seminars and convocation remarks.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2023
He spake of the cults of the forest demons, whose wails could be heard in the bush when the brotherhoods met in convocation.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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