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

Until, that is, they conceive of a plan to get Lady Jemima to accept Lord Wynstowe as her husband.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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

Records showed that they had tried to conceive children of their own for ten years, and had been waiting to adopt for another four.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

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

That’s perhaps because Kaurismäki conceives these sturdy people to be wiser than most about how rare it is to come across someone with matching wounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

"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

His ideas of heaven are those which his mind naturally conceives of as applying to a home; his conclusions from the Scriptures are not unusual.

From Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes by Howard W. Odum

Halzen, who grew up in Belgium, paid rich tribute to the roughly 450 people across more than a dozen countries who have helped turn an idea he conceived in the late 1980s into reality.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Thankfully, violence has been pushed to the periphery of most societies to a degree ancient and medieval people never conceived possible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The idea behind the sculpture park, when Halsey first conceived it about 16 years ago, she said in an interview, was a space that represents and pays homage to the neighborhood, both aesthetically and conceptually.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Audrey's legal campaign and Arthur's book together helped drive changes to French donor-conception laws, allowing people conceived after April 2025 to access identifying information about their donors when they reach adulthood.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

José Arcadio Buendía, who had still not been consoled for the failure of his magnets, conceived the idea of using that invention as a weapon of war.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The actual conceiving of the piece was really very difficult,” said Mr. Adams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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

The global policy chief for OpenAI was reportedly involved in conceiving the group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026

When F1 was conceiving the new engines, the idea was to attract more car manufacturers into the sport, and particularly the Volkswagen Group.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026

Because he had no topographic map, however, he had no way of conceiving that salvation was so close at hand.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer