preconception
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With a subject that can be as dark as this, I know some people aren’t ready to hear it or have a preconception of what the show will be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Historian David Olusoga, as a heavyweight intellect, will likely face the same preconception struggle as Fry, she says.
From BBC ● May 14, 2025
Future research can investigate additional variables like sleep quality or neighborhood safety as well as the effect of preconception stress on the baby's health.
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
Few are naive enough to think Supreme Court justices have no preconceptions about how a case will go.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026
She adds: "Until people can see someone who looks like them in a role, preconceptions are difficult to shift."
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
“I ask the reader,” Mr. Mamdani writes, “to shed certain media-driven preconceptions before reading this book.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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
Vocabulary lists containing preconception
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: pre-
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