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conventional medicine

American  
[kuhn-ven-shuh-nuhl med-uh-sin] / kənˈvɛn ʃə nəl ˈmɛd ə sɪn /

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Planning the wedding took five weeks and the cost was about a tenth of what they had thought they might have spent on a more conventional wedding.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2025

“Being in Santa Cruz in a redwood forest, and in her white dress, the contrast was just so pretty with the white smoke. It’s not a conventional wedding photo at all.”

From Fox News • Nov. 6, 2019

It will come as no surprise by this point, but we decided against getting a conventional wedding cake that tastes like polyurethane.

From Time • Jun. 15, 2010

This was an offering from the Japanese community in London, the conventional wedding present of every Japanese home from the richest to the poorest, varying only in size and splendour.

From Kimono by Paris, John

The Frenchman, still attired in evening dress, for that is the conventional wedding attire of his race, was lying on the bed sleeping the sleep of utter exhaustion supplemented by bromide.

From One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York by Tracy, Louis

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