conception
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Fourteen years after its conception, museumgoers will starting May 1 be able to walk the replica ship's decks, immersed in a giant, wrap-around LED display of star-studded night skies.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
“It changed my entire conception of who I was in the community,” Silva says.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
The museum’s new building, designed by Peter Zumthor, is as audacious in its conception as it is maddening to navigate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
De Gaulle was unbothered by his distance from Paris, for as the author observes, “his conception of France was an abstract one. He had little emotional attachment to places.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
As genetics moved from a material to a mechanistic conception of genes—from what genes are to what they do—human biologists began to perceive long-sought connections between genes, human physiology, and pathology.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing conception
Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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"Jane Eyre" -- Chapters I-IV
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