news conference
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of news conference
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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At Saturday morning’s news conference in Washington, federal officials said they did not believe cyber-crime or artificial intelligence played any role in Friday’s trouble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a news conference on Friday night that the outage would cause a ripple effect for a few days.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
“We have old switches, old routers. We use 1980s little copper lines,” he said at that news conference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
“We are back at full operations,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said at a Washington news conference Saturday morning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
I’ll always remember a news conference that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates held at the 1999 World Economic Forum in Davos, at the height of the tech bubble.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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