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preconception

[pree-kuhn-sep-shuhn] / ˌpri kənˈsɛp ʃən /


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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

Where Young pushed against the preconception that all Native American music included the chants and drums of powwows, Joe Rainey leaned into the typecasting.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2022

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




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