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[kuhn-vey] / kənˈveɪ /




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They could even convey the rules they had discovered through gestures or sketches.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

Despite the project’s stagnation, she continues to convey optimism.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

"It's impossible to convey the full impact Rhys' death had on us," she said, adding there was a "massive hole left in our lives by his unnecessary death".

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

The scale of government paperwork is nearly impossible to convey and even harder to believe.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

Géricault used the full range of painter’s tools—color, composition, mood, and lighting—to convey his theme of man’s struggle against nature.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell

As I see it, Kiki’s willingness to help others conveys a more important teaching about interdependence as an integral part of independence.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

She capably belts out the chorus yet never conveys the stakes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

What do you hope the film conveys to viewers?

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

The "Country Roads" appeal lies in the way it conveys "a kinder, simpler era with less conflict and division," said Doug Hartmann, a sociology professor at the University of Minnesota.

From Barron's Jul. 5, 2026

I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands."

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan

As an introduction to this band, they couldn’t have chosen a better song; it precisely conveyed exactly who the band was and what they were about.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

It requires, at minimum, a deep understanding of how, for example, an agent’s identity is “determined, managed, conveyed and operates,” as Crawford explained in an earlier post.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

But what the attendees couldn’t say out loud was at least conveyed by their massive presence: They would not let a data center go up without their input.

From Slate Aug. 6, 2026

Save the Redwoods League last month conveyed the 125-acre property to the Yurok Tribe following a years-long project to restore the degraded industrial site to a diverse riparian habitat.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

“We has news,” Bono announced to me, and the unwonted shyness of his manner conveyed his news faster than word.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

It is the same message officials across the country have been conveying in British Columbia, where around 115 fires are currently burning.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

Contact with the Jewish community in recent months has become very limited, Kermanian said, with Iranian Jews needing to be careful about conveying even the most trivial information to the outside world.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Greenspan exhibited a deft touch with financial markets, saying the barest minimum in his statements but seemingly always conveying what traders wanted to hear.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

These scenes are where the film does its best work, conveying the necessity of unstructured play with ease alongside the movie’s funniest jokes.

From Salon Jun. 21, 2026

If my organelles are really symbiotic bacteria, colonizing me, what’s to prevent them from catching a virus, or if they have such a thing as lysogeny, from conveying a phage to other organelles?

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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