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nounconference
nounpractice, tradition
nounagreement

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It’s usually a tangle of A- through D-list celebrities, former football greats and not-so-greats, all roaming the halls of a convention hall, hawking everything from rental cars to pot supplements.

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Aside from protections for health, hygiene, and other living conditions, the convention specifies that no agreement between the parties supersedes its protections while occupation continues.

ISRAEL LEADS THE WORLD IN VACCINATION RATES, BUT A KEY GROUP IS MISSING FROM THE DATABY YARA M. ASI/THE CONVERSATIONFEBRUARY 3, 2021POPULAR SCIENCE

I know now, though, that enough people found each other over the Internet and discovered that they shared this passion that entire conventions dedicated to furries emerged.

THE COUNTRY IS BEING BUFFETED BY GROUPS THAT COULDN’T EXIST 30 YEARS AGOPHILIP BUMPJANUARY 27, 2021WASHINGTON POST

After three marathon meetings, the party voted Saturday to stick with its plan to hold a convention.

FORMER CARLYLE EXECUTIVE GLENN YOUNGKIN JOINS RACE FOR VIRGINIA GOVERNORLAURA VOZZELLAJANUARY 27, 2021WASHINGTON POST

In February 1823, two-thirds of the state’s House of Representatives — the required quorum — passed a resolution calling for a convention to change the Illinois Constitution to legalize slavery.

LOOPHOLES HAVE PRESERVED SLAVERY FOR MORE THAN 150 YEARS AFTER ABOLITIONCAROLINE KISIELJANUARY 27, 2021WASHINGTON POST

Republicans plan to pick their nominee May 1 at a party-run convention.

BUSINESSMAN PETE SNYDER JOINS RACE FOR VIRGINIA GOVERNORLAURA VOZZELLAJANUARY 26, 2021WASHINGTON POST

I will probably encounter this person at a future industry convention.

MISS MANNERS: FORMER COLLEAGUE’S OMISSION IS PUZZLINGJUDITH MARTIN, NICHOLAS MARTIN, JACOBINA MARTINJANUARY 22, 2021WASHINGTON POST

The naming conventions could be streamlined a bit, but it’s a small complaint in the grand scheme.

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In short, despite the plan for CES to stay virtual, there will be no shortage of big new TVs to check out—they just won’t be forming giant video walls in a convention hall.

CES TRENDS TO LOOK OUT FOR AT THIS YEAR’S VIRTUAL CONFERENCESTAN HORACZEKJANUARY 6, 2021POPULAR SCIENCE

The organizers of the convention, whose ideas about women’s rights had been simmering for at least a decade, took the first step on a path that led to the 19th Amendment, which, after it was ratified in 1920, granted American women the right to vote.

A SHOCKING 19TH-CENTURY CRIME REVEALS THE CONTINUED NEED FOR GENDER EQUALITYJULIE MILLERDECEMBER 27, 2020WASHINGTON POST

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