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Who was the first American to conduct an opera at Milan's La Scala?

conduct

[kon-duhkt, kuhn-duhkt] / ˈkɒn dʌkt, kənˈdʌkt /




VERB
comport oneself
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG
WEAK


Usage

What are other ways to say conduct? To conduct is to precede or escort to a place, sometimes with a degree of ceremony: to conduct a guest to his room. Guide implies continuous presence or agency in showing or indicating a course: to guide a traveler. To direct is to give information for guidance, or instructions or orders for a course of procedure: to direct someone to the station. To lead is to bring onward in a course, guiding by contact or by going in advance; hence, figuratively, to influence or induce to some course of conduct: to lead a procession; to lead astray.

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Andøya’s single launchpad is reserved for Isar for up to 20 years, and plans to conduct some 30 launches in the next few years, but Olsen said the company plans to build more pads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Frost suggests sending Widdicombe upstairs to conduct the post-dance interviews instead of Radebe, who at times struggles to control his exuberant former fellow dancers.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

As Mathew found, however, Facebook didn’t conduct the investigation it promised — and knew at the time that it didn’t have the ability to take the announced actions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Wedgewood appears to have charged clients to conduct surveys on their behalf, a standard practice for aboveboard polling firms that could in this case amount to fraud.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

In other people’s presence I was, as formerly, deferential and quiet; any other line of conduct being uncalled for: it was only in the evening conferences I thus thwarted and afflicted him.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Cameron Berg is the founder of Reciprocal Research, a nonprofit that conducts empirical research on AI consciousness and welfare.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson said that the Defense Department conducts “extensive due diligence” before extending capital assistance.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Allies are currently bracing for possible cuts to US forces in Europe as the Pentagon conducts a review of its deployments on the continent.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

The U.A.E. typically conducts extensive security checks when hiring pilots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

After your fingerprints are submitted, the FBI conducts a thorough background check.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

The use of an anonymous IP address suggests that the activity was conducted by a "threat actor", he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

To reproduce some of these effects, the researchers conducted a simulated Martian gravity test after the astronauts returned to Earth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

But on Wednesday, Boreal said it had conducted a further investigation into the allegations.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

These studies were all conducted in the last 15 or so years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

The Gestapo were astonished that teenagers had conducted such resistance activity.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

“In some ways, the decision seems already made,” Maureen Ellenberger, a Santa Barbara resident, said in August to the federal officials conducting the hearing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

Weissenborn and Hennig are already conducting additional experiments focused on highly radioactive transuranic phases found in the remaining debris.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Legitimate pollsters strive to be transparent about who’s conducting them, who’s funding them, and the methods they use.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

Nasser in an interview aired Thursday on Al Arabiya Business said the company is conducting engineering studies for additional crude-export routes as it works to reduce its exposure to disruptions along major shipping corridors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

He had his daily meetings, but instead of asking me to leave, he had me wait on the other side of the white curtain, where we were now conducting most of our practice sessions.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken


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