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preconceived

[pree-kuhn-seevd] / ˌpri kənˈsivd /




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The museum has boldly reconceived the way it presents its collection with the opening of the David Geffen Galleries, but the result is a head-scratcher.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

But this time, it’s being presented off-Broadway in a radically reconceived version, dubbed “Masquerade,” that lets audiences get up close and personal with the phantom himself.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 10, 2025

He described it as "a mass of material that is so totally reconceived and rewritten that there is no longer any substantial similarity between my lyrics and the 1980 Paris model".

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,’ Anna Deavere Smith’s documentary play about the Rodney King uprising, is reconceived for a new era with many of the same problems.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2023

Learned men are too prone to give substance to mere shadows, when they assist some reconceived theory.

From The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) by Irving, Washington




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