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The current Oval Office has existed since the early 1930s, after its conception by President Franklin D Roosevelt.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 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
The research suggests that an individual's biology may reflect more than the DNA inherited at conception.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
This coheres with Keynes’s conception of much contemporary economic life as a struggle between creditors and debtors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
He was, in truth, more of a Renaissance man than a modern scientist, and still thought in terms of vital forces, an abstract conception of perfection and spirits that kept the body alive.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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While both statesmen were deists who believed in predestination and embraced the rational philosophy of the Enlightenment, they had different conceptions of what enlightened government meant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
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
By untethering the legal doctrine around company control from its traditional conceptions, the ruling introduced uncertainty precisely where Delaware law had long provided clarity.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
There is a fundamental difference between these two conceptions of the Scientific Revolution.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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