conception

The current Oval Office has existed since the early 1930s, after its conception by President Franklin D Roosevelt.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

That conception of Elvis has also faded in recent years, in no small part thanks to Baz Luhrmann’s glitzy, campy 2022 biopic.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

American Orthodox Jews maintain a widespread faith in a personalized conception of God.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The two have worked with the artist since 2009, and in previous presentations he approached the conception and installation as a kind of director.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

As genetics moved from a material to a mechanistic conception of genes—from what genes are to what they do—human biologists began to perceive long-sought connections between genes, human physiology, and pathology.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

A book published last month in the Netherlands reminds us how vast is the difference between the West’s conceptions of interest and Mr. Putin’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

But the two statesmen had different conceptions of governance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

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

There is a fundamental difference between these two conceptions of the Scientific Revolution.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton