conception
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He criticised the tournament's hydration breaks - a classic piece of Bielsa-ese - saying they "interfere with the culturally constructed conception of interpreting football. They add nothing..."
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026
For many years, the Supreme Court refused to embrace this two-dimensional conception of equal protection.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2026
Equally significant is this novel’s hard-earned conception of healing and freedom.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
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
The execution strikes us as pedestrian and thus out of tune with the conception of the work.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
Vocabulary lists containing conception
Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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"Jane Eyre" -- Chapters I-IV
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