preconception
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"People have a preconception about children like Jake and he’s blown that out the water," he said.
From BBC • Oct. 9, 2024
The study also found that women of higher socioeconomic status had higher levels of preconception stress and blood glucose levels during their pregnancy.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024
“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
“People come with a certain preconception about incarcerated people or about criminalization and, to me, art fails when they leave with the same idea,” she says.
From New York Times • Aug. 11, 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
Vocabulary lists containing preconception
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: pre-
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