conceive

It had taken three years for us to conceive our first child.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 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

Until, that is, they conceive of a plan to get Lady Jemima to accept Lord Wynstowe as her husband.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Today, the impacts of those efforts are everywhere, so ingrained in our understanding of what it means to solve climate change that it can be hard to conceive of another way forward.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

But he was the most electric personality I have ever met, and I still can’t quite conceive him dead.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

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

"If I'd known that one in five women conceives naturally after IVF, I'd have used contraception until I was ready both emotionally and physically."

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2023

It is the bounden duty of every man openly to avow whatever his mind conceives to be the truth.

From An Address to Men of Science Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth.... by Richard Carlile

When Harrelson later told a tale in which McConaughey’s mother revealed she had known Harrelson’s father around the time McConaughey was conceived, it made a lot of hot-rumor sense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

“The Great American Road Trip” was conceived as a travelogue, after a fashion, celebrating the 250th anniversary of America’s founding.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

The general effect is more of 10 diligently prepared classroom lectures than of a broadly conceived historical narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The technology was first conceived decades ago but came to the fore during the Covid-19 pandemic, when Moderna and Pfizer developed vaccines that were highly effective against serious forms of the illness.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

And only her great father could have conceived it.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Brooklyn resident Jenna Edwards always assumed she and her husband would have children, but they had trouble conceiving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

With “Resurrection,” Bi delivers something uncommonly rich, boldly conceiving his latest as a salute to the history of film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

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

Because he had no topographic map, however, he had no way of conceiving that salvation was so close at hand.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer