conception
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One is whether it has any conception of what it takes to make a good doctor.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 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
By chance, however, he'd ended up in the birthplace of hip-hop, right at the moment of conception.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
Ultimately a conceptual architect, he occasionally suffers from the chronic weakness of the type, which is that the realization can be weaker than the conception.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Descartes’ conception of the laws of nature was deeply influential.
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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