conceive

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

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

Unlike many peer institutions, the school doesn’t charge incoming students an enrollment deposit—if you say you are coming, they believe you, said Ashley Pallie, Caltech’s dean of undergrad admissions who helped conceive the fraud squad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

One of the key signs of pregnancy is a change to body temperature - which means trackers that can monitor body temperature are popular with those trying to conceive.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 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

She wrote in a letter to Etty, “I am reading the Psalms and I cannot conceive how they have satisfied the devotional feelings of the world for such centuries.”

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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

Egypt, along with other Arab states, remains committed to the long-time international formula for peace, the two-state solution which conceives an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025

Dewey's comments show that he conceives his method to be a restatement, in improved form, of the doctrine of the 'concrete universal.'

From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard

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

It was not until a week before shooting — after he had already conceived the character’s voice — that he finally gained access and heard Gein’s speech.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

They cite Joachim of Fiore, a 12th-century theologian, who conceived of the Trinity as a three-sided psaltery with 10 strings and a central sound hole representing God.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

In 1920, the memorably named Philo T. Farnsworth conceived the cathode ray vacuum tube used in most all twentieth-century TV sets.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

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

Chicago gave credit to Parazaider for conceiving of the band’s distinct instrumentation, and the work ethic that made them stars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

She believes their problems conceiving naturally were caused, or at least exacerbated, by the war: "all the stress and sleepless nights," Katerina says.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

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