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• a  following accepted customs and proprieties
  conventional wisdom
  she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior
  conventional forms of address
• s  conforming with accepted standards
  a conventional view of the world
• a  (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
  conventional warfare
  conventional weapons
• a  unimaginative and conformist
  conventional bourgeois lives
  conventional attitudes
• s  represented in simplified or symbolic form
• s  in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past
  a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white
  the conventional handshake
• s  rigidly formal or bound by convention

• The weapons of this world are divided into two unholy lethal parts: conventional weaponry and weapons of mass destruction.
• It is a conventional website but does have some features of a media site that updates itself every second.
• The conventional wisdom is to do MBA soon after college but there is a growing number of people who do MBA after gaining some experience.

• established
• formal
• schematic
• ceremonious

• unconventional
• nuclear

News & Articles

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• Yen Is a Proxy for Japanese Recovery, Not a Driver of U.S. Stocks
  What was once a sort of oddball idea has become conventional wisdom: when the Japanese yen goes lower the U.S. stock market goes higher. Like anything else "everyone" believes, it's worth some time to question the premise before making investment decisions. Certainly the relationship between the yen and the S&P 500 (^GSPC) has been a [...]
  June 12, 2013 - Yahoo! Finance: Breakout
• 3 ways aging baby boomers will help the economy
  Conventional wisdom holds that a massive wave of retirees will kneecap the economy. But it's not all bad...
  June 11, 2013 - The Week via Yahoo! News
• Americas Petrogas Provides Update of Conventional Operations in Argentina
  Americas Petrogas Inc. is pleased to provide the following update of its conventional oil and gas activities in Argentina.
  June 10, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Ben Bernanke in The Australian
  Although conventional interest rate policy is constrained by the fact that nominal interest rates cannot fall below zero, the second arrow in the Federal Reserve's quiver - the provision of liquidity - remains effective,Mr Bernanke said.
• Gordon Brown in ABC News
  This is not a time for conventional thinking or outdated dogma but for the fresh and innovative intervention that gets to the heart of the problem,Prime Minister Gordon Brown told a news conference.
• Barack Obama in Forbes
  I think it's fair to say that the Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10 to 15 years in the sense that they were challenging conventional wisdom,Obama told the newspaper.