conceptions

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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

In French, matière denotes not only physical matter but abstract conceptions such as fields of study and aesthetic phenomena such as the surface of paint.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 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

Nazism and Lysenkoism were based on dramatically opposed conceptions of heredity—but the parallels between the two movements are striking.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee