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conference

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


NOUN
league of athletic teams
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Astronomers around the world observed the extreme encounter, and the event was presented at the AAS conference in Phoenix, Arizona.

From Science Daily Aug. 16, 2026

Last week, US and South Korean military leaders held a joint press conference announcing Ulchi Freedom Shield.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

The governor of East Nusa Tenggara Province, Emanuel Melkiades Laka Lena, told a press conference they were killed in their sleep by collapsing rubble.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

She noted that the government had been of two minds as to whether to send security chief Omar Garcia Harfuch to a DEA conference in Argentina, given Mexico’s rocky relationship with the agency.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Chip was at a dentist’s appointment, so they hadn’t been able to share the news about the conference with him yet.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Miller said Bianco’s claims were part of a calculated media campaign that included text messages, media interviews and news conferences.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Section 118 provides antitrust protection to the NCAA, athletic conferences and universities.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Cuba's Communist Party has used the 100 years since late president Fidel Castro's birth to rally the party faithful and the armed forces through a week-long series of exhibitions, concerts and conferences.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

In the past four years he has given just two news conferences, both lasting an hour and held before the start of the World Cup.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

They spent the greater part of the day closeted in the bedroom in hermetic conferences and at dusk they asked for an escort and some accordion players and took over Catarino’s store.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

On Dec. 9, the court conferenced and took a split vote.

From New York Times Feb. 15, 2023

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

From Washington Times Feb. 24, 2020

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 said it had 30% growth in its channel pipeline.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 26, 2025

Sharoudi became friends with Hush, who was telecommunications manager at NHS Lothian and then NHS Scotland video conferencing manager.

From BBC Jun. 5, 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

It lets me record calls by conferencing in a third-party number.

From Slate Oct. 31, 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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