conventions

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This constitutes what is now called “practical monetarism”—an updated form of monetarism that brings lessons from the past into contact with the accepted conventions of the present.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Once he’d amassed a large number of them, he decided to start selling them, first at conventions, then beginning in 2023 at a physical location.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Today many of us are as likely to be disorientated by his fondness for folklore and myth, his assumptions about religion and social order, and his immersion in the conventions of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

“Black Bag” tore up spy movie conventions with its emphasis on fidelity in the field, becoming one of the genre’s most scintillating new films in years.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026

They are being too logical, while betraying their lack of familiarity with the conventions of the printed page.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker