preconception

She urged women who’ve dealt with issues like anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder to make preconception and pregnancy appointments with care providers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Historian David Olusoga, as a heavyweight intellect, will likely face the same preconception struggle as Fry, she says.

From BBC ● May 14, 2025

The team found that women who experienced higher preconception stress had higher mean glucose levels.

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

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

The film asks one to look closer, not just at others but also at one’s own accepted opinions, assumptions and preconceptions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Few are naive enough to think Supreme Court justices have no preconceptions about how a case will go.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026

In Arizona, the overhaul started about a decade ago with the closing of underperforming, 6,000-square-foot locations that fit many people’s preconceptions of thrift as “that dark, dirty store on the corner,” O’Neal said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

Does he believe, and act on, intelligence reports, especially those that rub against his preconceptions?

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025

Absurd perhaps, but variants of this explanation in less transparent contexts might carry considerable force for people with strong enough preconceptions.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos