conception
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The two have worked with the artist since 2009, and in previous presentations he approached the conception and installation as a kind of director.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
By the first 1,000 days, we mean the period from conception to a child’s second birthday.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
There, one song evoked a musical conception he had imagined but never achieved—“it dealt with space, and a logic that rhymed and was almost obtuse,” Mr. Batiste once told me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
But trauma triggers can be an issue when conception happens outside a clinic, in the context of a loving relationship—and they can be scary to deal with.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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But the two statesmen had different conceptions of governance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
But TV had never seen anything quite like the Krofft shows, with its Day-Glo aesthetic, crazy conceptions and combination of puppets, costume puppets and costumed human characters into a half-hour comedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
These aspirations speak to customers’ greatest desires, their dreams for the future, and their conceptions of who they are and who they strive to be.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 27, 2026
For Xi, the party’s earlier conceptions of a multiethnic China were too weak a foundation for building a modern nation-state, according to Oidtmann.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
The poets of the Elder Edda seem to have had conceptions greater than their skill to put them into words.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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