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conventional

[kuhn-ven-shuh-nl] / kənˈvɛn ʃə nl /




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Cal-Maine Foods was hurt by historically low egg prices, with the average selling price of conventional eggs falling more than 70%.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

A single-stock leveraged fund, it added, "fundamentally conflicts with diversification requirements imposed on conventional public funds, making that ETF structure unacceptable".

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

An international research team led by Hiroshima University has developed a technique that can reveal extremely early changes in human skin collagen, long before the damage becomes visible under conventional imaging.

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

Many people are afraid to pursue a path that runs counter to conventional definitions of success.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

From the point of view of a conventional seventeenth-century philosopher, this was a peculiar sort of explanation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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