Example Sentences

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The whole group missed the 2020 tournament, hearing the news from a hotel lobby in Brooklyn just before a preconference tournament practice.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2022

It would have been nice to have been over .500 in preconference.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2020

While manfully debating the great issues that a preconference poll showed are most troubling youth, the delegates had to borrow Army parkas from nearby Fort Carson and improvise boots from chartreuse plastic grocery bags.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thin-lipped, five-starred General Georges Catroux, Fighting French commander in Syria and Lebanon, was the preconference intermediary.

From Time Magazine Archive

All parties had accepted the principle of majority rule, said U.S. officials, and were now merely engaged in preconference maneuvering.

From Time Magazine Archive