conventions

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This nod to elaborate disguises, favoured by attendees at science fiction conventions, hints at Smith's core audience.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

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

Bloom’s first foray into crime fiction nails the genre’s conventions while her bona fides as a recently retired professor of English and psychotherapist in mid-state Connecticut make this book resonate as spot-on, hilarious truth.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 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

In theory—that is, as a simple physical possibility—an animal could pick up and go, flaunting all the social conventions and boundaries proper to its species.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel