preconception

Example Sentences

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The big preconception in wrestling is that performers do not get hurt, Annabelle said, but she has the bruises to show this is not the case.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2025

Federal health officials continue to recommend COVID-19 vaccination to individuals planning to conceive, and stress that the benefits of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine outweigh potential risks of vaccination during preconception or pregnancy.

From Science Daily • Oct. 31, 2023

“I do know there’s this preconception that the festival is a little more of a film nerd thing,” Huntsinger says.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023

Where Young pushed against the preconception that all Native American music included the chants and drums of powwows, Joe Rainey leaned into the typecasting.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2022

Then there are others where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing, or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high-colored magical confusion takes permanent hold.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck