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Six example sentences with conventional, each labelled with its topic.
The house looks conventional from the street, and only the back reveals a glass wall the neighbors still argue about.
Architecture
The patient's recovery plan was entirely conventional: rest, fluids, and a follow-up visit, and it worked exactly as expected.
Medicine
The plot is conventional down to the last beat, which is why the strange lighting in the final act startles you.
Movies
The conventional method browns the onions first, but the chef adds them raw and lets the long simmer soften them.
Cooking
The coach started a conventional lineup of two guards, two forwards, and a center, then changed everything by the second quarter.
Basketball
A conventional mortgage asks for a deposit of a fifth, and buyers with less pay for insurance on top of the loan.
Finance
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Found in 9 published word lists
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
- Academic Keyword List (Paquot 2010)Authoritative
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)Authoritative
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
- GregMat 960 GRE WordsRecognized
- MajorTests SAT 1000Recognized
Each source is a published word list that contains conventional. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.