conception
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Men are now joining women in obsessing over trimester zero, a coinage referring to the months leading up to conception.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
But playing the part was another matter, having sold everyone involved in the production on a very specific tone and conception of what they would do together.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
By chance, however, he'd ended up in the birthplace of hip-hop, right at the moment of conception.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
The titular hero begins his digressive story with a comic account of his own conception; at his birth his nose is accidentally smashed by the “man-midwife,” Dr. Slop.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
Koyré had a vast influence in America, and his Bachelardian conception of an intellectual mutation was adopted by Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
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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