conceive

That meant LGBTQ+ and single people who historically had been shut out by definitions of infertility as a failure to conceive after six to 12 months of unprotected heterosexual intercourse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

She became a surrogate partly to help parents who couldn’t conceive and to fund a future—“four bedrooms, five baths,” she told the Journal—for her husband, daughter and herself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

I could remotely conceive surprising him once, for an instant, the way his mother had been when she was captured— but to surprise him long enough to give him six consecutive injections?

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

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

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

The author is evidently careful to take things exactly as he conceives them to be, and to work out his conclusions without 'cleverness' and unobscured by technical language.

From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

Montanez noted that the case appears to be unusual because mass shooting plots are most often conceived and carried out by male suspects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

But the college faced challenges that slowed the project after it was initially conceived in 2018.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

It was here he conceived the idea of sending a lander, named Beagle 2 by his wife, to Mars, where it could study the red planet directly for signs of life.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

This position in the orchestra, but putative, conceived as a feint to draw me away from my fellows so that rogues might throw me in chains—this phantasm might now be conjured to solidity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Along with Jerry Seinfeld, a comedy-club pal, Mr. David was instrumental in conceiving the premise of “Seinfeld,” which began as an exploration of how a comedian gets his ideas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

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

In total, only 12% of people cited infertility - or difficulty conceiving - as a reason for not having the number of children they wanted to.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 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