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Even Sigmund Freud’s conception of a wild, uninhibited id struggling against the superego was influenced by the emerging discipline of brain science—specifically, the Scottish neurologist and psychologist David Ferrier’s theory of inhibition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The two have worked with the artist since 2009, and in previous presentations he approached the conception and installation as a kind of director.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
By the first 1,000 days, we mean the period from conception to a child’s second birthday.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
As they celebrate America’s 250th birthday, they are also contemplating the relevance of their orientation to the nation’s conception of itself.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
The conception of a normal child was merely the transfer of this minihuman—the homunculus—from the father’s sperm into the mother’s womb.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
But TV had never seen anything quite like the Krofft shows, with its Day-Glo aesthetic, crazy conceptions and combination of puppets, costume puppets and costumed human characters into a half-hour comedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
These aspirations speak to customers’ greatest desires, their dreams for the future, and their conceptions of who they are and who they strive to be.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 27, 2026
Glass, 88, is seen as the greatest living US composer and perhaps the most influential in the post-World War II era, shattering long-held linear conceptions of classical music and enthusiastically incorporating non-Western forms.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
A brilliant final section of self-portraits, beginning with the artist as a fresh-faced 23-year-old, documents both her changing appearance and her evolving conceptions of what a painting could be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026
There is a fundamental difference between these two conceptions of the Scientific Revolution.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing conception
Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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"Jane Eyre" -- Chapters I-IV
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