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conference

[kon-fer-uhns, -fruhns] / ˈkɒn fər əns, -frəns /


NOUN
league of athletic teams
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Carrick will be asked about the situation when he holds his pre-game news conference at 13:30 BST on Friday.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

The emergence this year of a "super" El Nino, the natural warming phenomenon, also presents a risk to corals, Gudka said at a news conference at the UN's COP17 biodiversity summit in Yerevan, Armenia.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

The conference had already selected the presentation for its presidential symposium, a slot reserved for medical studies that have the potential to change the standard of care.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Gen. Rob Bonta is scheduled to make his own announcement about state healthcare fraud prosecutions at a news conference Thursday morning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The only interested parties missing from the conference were the ultimate borrowers, the American home buyers, but even they, in a way, were on hand, serving drinks, spinning wheels, and rolling dice.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Hundreds of scientific papers have appeared within just a few years, and altermagnetism has become a prominent subject at international physics conferences.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Carmakers held news conferences back-to-back, sometimes overlapping, as Chinese executives played up their plans to increase manufacturing in Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

It was the first game between consecutive MVPs who play in separate conferences since 2015 when Peyton Manning went against Aaron Rodgers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Commons sits on Monday for the first time since 15 September, having been in recess during some of the party conferences.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

She herself was rather looking forward to going to conferences, she said.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

He whispered to one of his attorneys while his lead lawyers, Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Marc Agnifilo, conferenced with the judge and prosecutors at the front of the courtroom.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

Which gets us to that footnote, in which Justice Alito writes, “That constitutional question was argued and conferenced nearly seven months ago.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

On Dec. 9, the court conferenced and took a split vote.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

Buck’s petition is expected to be conferenced by the U.S.

From Time ● Apr. 20, 2016

I have already conferenced with Rae, and now Ethan’s conference is going over.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

You’ll have no trouble streaming 4K content, downloading large files or video conferencing on these connections.

From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2025

The video conferencing company said it had 30% growth in its channel pipeline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

We connect via video conferencing software, her location in the U.S. a secret, and Mariya appears in her anime form, her silver-white hair occasionally obscuring her welcoming oval eyes, which blink often as she speaks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025

Sharoudi became friends with Hush, who was telecommunications manager at NHS Lothian and then NHS Scotland video conferencing manager.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025

After sitting for an interview, Nilekani gave our TV crew a tour of Infosys’s global conferencing center—ground zero of the Indian outsourcing industry.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman


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