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conviction

[kuhn-vik-shuhn] / kənˈvɪk ʃən /




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"An era comes to an end with her passing. I feel, like so many French people, a deep nostalgia," said Sarkozy, who last year was briefly jailed over a graft conviction.

From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026

“The foundation of their happiness is Max’s suffering,” he says, adding that while the crime was local in the previous versions, Cady’s conviction had been a national sensation in this one.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Malkinson, now aged 60, failed in several appeals against his conviction in 2012 and 2020.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Berenberg says it has greater conviction that Ferrari intends to introduce a combustion engine successor to the 296, which would reinvigorate the core customer base.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

When he combined that attitude with a righteous indignation about how the world treated the poor, his conviction was hard to ignore.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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