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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

"We had hoped we'd conceive naturally, but we'd started trying long before our wedding and it wasn't happening," she says.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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

Like Dean, Norris Bradbury could not conceive of Teller’s helming a major lab of his own.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

Turk conceives her character as a collection of insecurities and hesitant expressions, making Dalia the perfect candidate to be metaphorically reborn through an unlikely forest adventure in which magical events will occur.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025

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

"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

But it is your love that conceives the best, and makes all things seem better than they are.

From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by J. (Jesse) Clement

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

Halzen, who grew up in Belgium, paid rich tribute to the roughly 450 people across more than a dozen countries who have helped turn an idea he conceived in the late 1980s into reality.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Elements Gehry devised to set it apart are already visible, as construction on the $337-million addition to the Colburn School of Performing Arts reveals details the architect conceived years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The idea behind the sculpture park, when Halsey first conceived it about 16 years ago, she said in an interview, was a space that represents and pays homage to the neighborhood, both aesthetically and conceptually.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

But when he came to know him better and realized his true character was the opposite of his submissive conduct, he conceived the malicious suspicion that even the wait for the airplane was an act.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Along with Jerry Seinfeld, a comedy-club pal, Mr. David was instrumental in conceiving the premise of “Seinfeld,” which began as an exploration of how a comedian gets his ideas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The global policy chief for OpenAI was reportedly involved in conceiving the group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026

When F1 was conceiving the new engines, the idea was to attract more car manufacturers into the sport, and particularly the Volkswagen Group.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026

When Ms Park and her husband had trouble conceiving, they looked to fertility treatments.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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