conceive

It had taken three years for us to conceive our first child.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

"We had hoped we'd conceive naturally, but we'd started trying long before our wedding and it wasn't happening," she says.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Today, the impacts of those efforts are everywhere, so ingrained in our understanding of what it means to solve climate change that it can be hard to conceive of another way forward.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

How did you come to conceive of how to depict people’s online life?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Over the past 10,000 years, Homo sapiens has grown so accustomed to being the only human species that it’s hard for us to conceive of any other possibility.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Clearly Ms. Footer conceives of Bradley as something of a tortured Romantic; what’s unclear—in fact, what is unknowable—is whether Bradley did himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

Turk conceives her character as a collection of insecurities and hesitant expressions, making Dalia the perfect candidate to be metaphorically reborn through an unlikely forest adventure in which magical events will occur.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025

Perhaps the big divide here isn’t about what one wants one’s family to look like, but in how one conceives of parenthood in the first place.

From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2025

"If I'd known that one in five women conceives naturally after IVF, I'd have used contraception until I was ready both emotionally and physically."

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2023

No sooner is anything that can be counted or measured conceived than the mind instantly conceives something greater.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier

“The Great American Road Trip” was conceived as a travelogue, after a fashion, celebrating the 250th anniversary of America’s founding.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

“Ballistic missile defense, as it was conceived, has just been exposed as something that doesn’t work that way in practice.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The technology was first conceived decades ago but came to the fore during the Covid-19 pandemic, when Moderna and Pfizer developed vaccines that were highly effective against serious forms of the illness.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

The majority of the children who have done DNA tests were conceived through IVF between 2012 and 2024 at Dogus clinic.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

During a 1946 visit to his in-laws on Balboa Island, a resort spot south of Los Angeles, he conceived the idea of renting a home on the island for the summer.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

In conceiving the story, they also wanted to avoid the “cottage industry” that had popped up around Bourdain’s death, which focused on the mystery of his final days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Brooklyn resident Jenna Edwards always assumed she and her husband would have children, but they had trouble conceiving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

With “Resurrection,” Bi delivers something uncommonly rich, boldly conceiving his latest as a salute to the history of film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

It demands conceiving, sketching, lingering; it demands time.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2025

I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it disgusted me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë