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convivial

[kuhn-viv-ee-uhl] / kənˈvɪv i əl /




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“Bowtie” Bob Kellermann was the convivial sales guy who got Lodge into Walmart and Williams-Sonoma, while Henry Lodge dove into finances and foundry operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

To Vasquez’s shock, attendees were instead convivial, even friendly.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

What sets Houdon’s Franklin apart from the other two is that in those depictions the polymath seems silenced and solitary, compared with Houdon’s convivial treatment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

There isn’t anywhere else that one can walk into and immediately satisfy the social instinct among a convivial and refreshingly diverse clientele in what is becoming an increasingly homogenized locality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

If you had to select the least convivial scientific field trip of all time, you could certainly do worse than the French Royal Academy of Sciences’ Peruvian expedition of 1735.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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