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conference

[kon-fer-uhns, -fruhns] / ˈkɒn fər əns, -frəns /


NOUN
league of athletic teams
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There are 230,000 members of the Green party overall and not everyone attended the conference.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

“It certainly makes life easier for the team, the bullpen, if the starters are good,” said manager Dave Roberts during a conference call.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Prescott was asked about the incident during his postgame news conference.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

At a packed conference of foreign investors in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, last week, Michael Garcia, deputy chief of mission at the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Mom came around the corner just as he’d managed to obliterate the last e of conference.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Managers and head coaches - including Maresca on Friday - will be asked to comment on the matter during compulsory pre-match press conferences.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Press conferences on consecutive days underline her message: “strong demand for more compute,” “AI is incredibly good for the world,” and “memory is overall supply-constrained.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

The admittedly nervous executive started Monday’s news conferences by apologizing to the Clippers’ faithful for the aftermath of the Leonard situation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

For days, he’d been texting his coach about details he’d spotted in USC’s game film, or heard them hint at in news conferences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

The evil Clyde has in vengeance given me a route that is a “White Elephant,” a term which he once applied to me during the course of one of our business conferences.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

He whispered to one of his attorneys while his lead lawyers, Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Marc Agnifilo, conferenced with the judge and prosecutors at the front of the courtroom.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

Which gets us to that footnote, in which Justice Alito writes, “That constitutional question was argued and conferenced nearly seven months ago.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

Gomes telephoned his mother, who then allegedly conferenced Price into the call, prosecutors said.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 24, 2020

With two other colleagues conferenced in, they discussed the possibility of a byline strike.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2016

I have already conferenced with Rae, and now Ethan’s conference is going over.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

The video conferencing company also bumped up its guidance for the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

You’ll have no trouble streaming 4K content, downloading large files or video conferencing on these connections.

From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2025

Contracts awarded to Oricom Ltd, founded by Adam Sharoudi and Gavin Brown, for telecoms and video conferencing equipment between 2010 and 2017 breached rules on financial wrongdoing during the tendering process.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2025

Neufeld is in the process of fine-tuning a Zoom-based edition of “Code Green,” hoping the video conferencing service could help expose it to nonstudents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

After sitting for an interview, Nilekani gave our TV crew a tour of Infosys’s global conferencing center—ground zero of the Indian outsourcing industry.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman




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