conception
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The Central Council of Jews in Germany and the Jewish Claims Conference, an organization seeking compensation for Holocaust survivors, support the new system and were involved in its conception.
From Barron's
The ancients provided two foundational conceptions of slavery.
Twenty-four paintings spanned the working life of the “bad boy” who died at age 38 in 1610, after reinventing conceptions of what a painting could be.
“For him, that’s the highest priority, and it matches his conception of American power, which is very much about maximizing those economic benefits, which matches the vision of these wealthy Gulf oil states,” Shapiro said.
How about something that challenges our very conception of life itself?
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
