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  • noun Plural form of conduct.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conduct.

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Examples

  • Every decade or so, Britain conducts a full-scale review of its defense arrangements.

    Azeem Ibrahim: Eight Reasons Why The UK's Strategic Defence and Security Review Must Not Savage its Military Azeem Ibrahim 2010

  • The experiment in education that he conducts is asking people what they want to learn and then taking all of the funds from their tuition and applying it to their area of interest.

    What do we teach our kids? | Johnny B. Truant 2010

  • Palin conducts herself just fine if she isn't being targeted by hostile MSM or liberal hatchetmen.

    First on the Ticker: Palin will not run for re-election 2009

  • In his column today, Adam Nagourney writes that at nearly every town-hall meeting that John McCain conducts with voters these days, he stops to point out someone missing from the room: Barack Obama.

    About Those Town-Hall Meetings… - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • In his column today, Adam Nagourney writes that at nearly every town-hall meeting that John McCain conducts with voters these days, he stops to point out someone missing from the room: Barack Obama.

    About Those Town-Hall Meetings… - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • He attends every vestry meeting that is held; always opposes the constituted authorities of the parish, denounces the profligacy of the churchwardens, contests legal points against the vestry-clerk, will make the tax-gatherer call for his money till he won't call any longer, and then he sends it: finds fault with the sermon every Sunday, says that the organist ought to be ashamed of himself, offers to back himself for any amount to sing the psalms better than all the children put together, male and female; and, in short, conducts himself in the most turbulent and uproarious manner.

    Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841

  • Abraham with his sword conducts Isaac to the sacrifice on Mount Moriah.

    Bruges and West Flanders Am��d��e Forestier 1887

  • I think it's funny when all the dipsh! ts in the DEA fan club give a good stroke to the Feds after an article about a raid the "Humboldt County Drug Enforcement Unit" conducts, which is a division of the Humboldt Sheriff's Department.

    The Ukiah Daily Journal Forum 2009

  • Former Bush adviser Karl Rove said the Obama administration risks looking like a "Third World regime where the incoming junta of colonels" conducts "show trials of their predecessors over policy differences."

    Torture Cases Would Face Legal Hurdles 2009

  • Find below a video which was originally sent to me by a friend, whom will remain nameless where he "conducts" an interview with President Zapatero.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

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