conceive of

Example Sentences

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If that is the case, along with the latest jobs numbers, it gets difficult “to even conceive of the Fed thinking seriously about cutting rates,” he says.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

“It is hard to conceive of a scenario where diesel prices aren’t sky-high and aren’t impacting inflation across the U.S.”

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

A sheep who can’t conceive of death, let alone accept that humans would want to murder and eat her entire flock, might as well be fodder.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

Few people today could imagine a world without eyeglasses, just as they could not conceive of a world without screens, an analogy that “A Four-Eyed World” often suggests.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 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