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conduct

[kon-duhkt, kuhn-duhkt] / ˈkɒn dʌkt, kənˈdʌkt /




VERB
comport oneself
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG
WEAK


Usage

What are other ways to say conduct? To conduct is to precede or escort to a place, sometimes with a degree of ceremony: to conduct a guest to his room. Guide implies continuous presence or agency in showing or indicating a course: to guide a traveler. To direct is to give information for guidance, or instructions or orders for a course of procedure: to direct someone to the station. To lead is to bring onward in a course, guiding by contact or by going in advance; hence, figuratively, to influence or induce to some course of conduct: to lead a procession; to lead astray.

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Microsoft published a provisional code of conduct that it aims to apply when training new AI models.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

Over the past few weeks she’s received questions about whether auditors can speak freely without retaliation from the labs and if evaluators can gain sufficient access to the necessary materials needed to conduct an audit.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

Hill, a Yale-educated lawyer asked to elaborate on the prurient conduct she was chronically subjected to at work, never loses her professional composure.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

Aaron Watkins apologised on behalf of Officer 3 and accepted his conduct "undoubtably" contributed to the courts and parties involved being misled, but denied it had been the result of dishonesty.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

But Joey can’t resist the opportunity to conduct spy work up close and personal.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Founded in 1985, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is a nonprofit organization that promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in education and research.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

He conducts tours of the White House helipad while promoting a fertilizer brand on national television.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

"What remains to be seen is not whether Singh will eventually walk free, but how the government conducts itself around that decision...and whether minority communities are given any reassurance," Dayal adds.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

Scott said CBP will pause its projects in the national park as he conducts a “personal, on-the-ground evaluation.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Mr. Watras, who usually grades papers while a student conducts us through practice, stopped what he was doing to watch me.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick

The work was conducted as part of NutriNet-Santé, a large ongoing research project examining the connections between nutrition and health.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

Pew drew its data from a survey of 42,151 people across 36 countries conducted between Feb. 8 and May 13, along with two U.S.-focused surveys in February and June.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

The Football Association has conducted what Tuchel described as a "sometimes painful, sometimes emotional" review into England's World Cup campaign.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

He wrote essays and conducted oral interviews with UFW greats such as Hartmire and Gilbert Padilla who were essential to the union’s success.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

Estella told me we were both to go in, so I took Joe by the coat-cuff and conducted him into Miss Havisham’s presence.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

The judge, Mr Justice Rooney, found "the duty governor clearly took account of this incorrect information when making his own risk assessment and when conducting a proportionality assessment".

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

The Justice Department has been conducting a wide-ranging investigation into pediatric gender care.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong said in an order granting a preliminary injunction that the government “is regularly abstaining from conducting a likelihood of escape analysis at all” when making arrests without a warrant.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

Russia and China are conducting joint military exercises in the far north.

From Salon Sep. 16, 2026

“But did you make me swear on the River Styx? No you didn’t. So it’s not binding. When you’re conducting business, sonny, you should always get a binding oath.”

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan




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