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That meant LGBTQ+ and single people who historically had been shut out by definitions of infertility as a failure to conceive after six to 12 months of unprotected heterosexual intercourse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Some may find a partner and conceive on their own; some may decide they no longer want children; and others may choose another path to parenthood, such as adoption.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026

She became a surrogate partly to help parents who couldn’t conceive and to fund a future—“four bedrooms, five baths,” she told the Journal—for her husband, daughter and herself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

She's hoping to start trying to conceive again soon - and when she does, her experience has made her rethink wearing her tracker again.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

But it has not dared to accept this opportunity, or even to conceive of it as an opportunity.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

Clearly Ms. Footer conceives of Bradley as something of a tortured Romantic; what’s unclear—in fact, what is unknowable—is whether Bradley did himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

Perhaps the big divide here isn’t about what one wants one’s family to look like, but in how one conceives of parenthood in the first place.

From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2025

Egypt, along with other Arab states, remains committed to the long-time international formula for peace, the two-state solution which conceives an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025

That’s perhaps because Kaurismäki conceives these sturdy people to be wiser than most about how rare it is to come across someone with matching wounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

The Italian fancy begets things terrible more easily than it conceives a lovely dream.

From Naples Past and Present by Arthur H. Norway

But it was also the chief driver of the dam project, which had originally been conceived to protect Imperial Valley growers from river-borne floodwaters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

But the college faced challenges that slowed the project after it was initially conceived in 2018.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Each element beyond the central character study, which is itself only shallowly conceived, ends up another superfluity in a storm of them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

It was here he conceived the idea of sending a lander, named Beagle 2 by his wife, to Mars, where it could study the red planet directly for signs of life.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

This position in the orchestra, but putative, conceived as a feint to draw me away from my fellows so that rogues might throw me in chains—this phantasm might now be conjured to solidity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

“The actual conceiving of the piece was really very difficult,” said Mr. Adams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Chicago gave credit to Parazaider for conceiving of the band’s distinct instrumentation, and the work ethic that made them stars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

She believes their problems conceiving naturally were caused, or at least exacerbated, by the war: "all the stress and sleepless nights," Katerina says.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

But some symptoms are highly suggestive of PCOS, including irregular or missed periods, excessive hair growth on the face and body, acne, weight gain, and difficulty conceiving.

From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2025

I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it disgusted me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë