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  • noun Plural form of conf.

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Examples

  • Please don't keep talking to speakers at confs., meetings, etc., when they nicely say they have another session/appointment/meeting to attend.

    A Long-Winded and Somewhat Reluctant Do & Don't List for Newbies Wanting to Reach Out to Authors 2008

  • In today's Sunday Telegraph, I call the new elite the "neo-confs" - those who have an ideological commitment to conferences, meetings, talks, and talks about talks.

    The rise of the neo-confs 2009

  • In today's Sunday Telegraph, I call the new elite the "neo-confs" - those who have an ideological commitment to conferences, meetings, talks, and talks about talks.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • I really like the running from USB with confs for multiple locations :

    DirSync Pro Keeps Your Files Synchronised | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • For the "neo-confs" really are standing athwart history: today's electorates are less impressed than ever by such displays of elite power, less deferential and more "horizontally" connected to their peers than any previous generation, thanks to the web.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • If the "neo-cons" had (in some cases), a simplistic faith in the capacity of military action to spread democracy, the "neo-confs" have a simplistic faith in the power of Jamie Oliver dinners, group hugs and goody bags.

    The rise of the neo-confs 2009

  • For the "neo-confs" really are standing athwart history: today's electorates are less impressed than ever by such displays of elite power, less deferential and more "horizontally" connected to their peers than any previous generation, thanks to the web.

    The rise of the neo-confs 2009

  • If the "neo-cons" had (in some cases), a simplistic faith in the capacity of military action to spread democracy, the "neo-confs" have a simplistic faith in the power of Jamie Oliver dinners, group hugs and goody bags.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • But, for the "neo-confs", this is scarcely the point.

    The rise of the neo-confs 2009

  • But, for the "neo-confs", this is scarcely the point.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

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