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Weinbach also said that Kimi K3 “doesn’t really change anything” in terms of its compute economics, adding that the conception that open models are cheap to run isn’t necessarily true.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
I think that understanding—that the point of the federal judiciary is to enforce Congress’ conception of what the Constitution means—is a good way to make sense of the cases this term.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
The conception of the role, marked by a dim view of stardom’s suffocating alienation, was something Jolie clearly understood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
He criticised the tournament's hydration breaks - a classic piece of Bielsa-ese - saying they "interfere with the culturally constructed conception of interpreting football. They add nothing..."
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
In the Trobriands conception was the work of ancestral ghosts; nobody had ever heard of a father.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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
By untethering the legal doctrine around company control from its traditional conceptions, the ruling introduced uncertainty precisely where Delaware law had long provided clarity.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
What might have looked like a shared curriculum was really three different educational projects reflective of three institutions with different conceptions of themselves—which is to say, three different missions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Nazism and Lysenkoism were based on dramatically opposed conceptions of heredity—but the parallels between the two movements are striking.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing conception
Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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"Jane Eyre" -- Chapters I-IV
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