conventions

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It is also used by Democrats and Republicans alike for political conventions and events: Marilyn Monroe famously performed her legendary rendition of "Happy Birthday" for then president John F. Kennedy at a 1962 fundraiser.

From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026

These conventions molded the Reconstruction amendments in ways that originalist jurisprudence ignores.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2026

Those are the conventions and rulings that Feiglin and others now openly flout and disregard.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026

“Plan 75” eschewed dystopian-thriller conventions to ponder how Japan might one day treat its senior citizens, viewing them as little more than a drain on resources.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Although lexicographers have neither the desire nor the power to prevent linguistic conventions from changing, this does not mean, as purists fear, that they cannot state the conventions in force at a given time.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker