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The pair ran their own surrogacy company and are accused of making false statements to at least two women who became surrogates, indicating that Zhang was struggling to conceive, according to the criminal complaint.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

Unlike many peer institutions, the school doesn’t charge incoming students an enrollment deposit—if you say you are coming, they believe you, said Ashley Pallie, Caltech’s dean of undergrad admissions who helped conceive the fraud squad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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

I began to cherish hopes I had no right to conceive: that the match was broken off; that rumour had been mistaken; that one or both parties had changed their minds.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

Egypt, along with other Arab states, remains committed to the long-time international formula for peace, the two-state solution which conceives an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 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

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

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

It was here he conceived the idea of sending a lander, named Beagle 2 by his wife, to Mars, where it could study the red planet directly for signs of life.

From BBC ● 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

Ali conceived one of her best-known performance-based works, “The Red Chador,” in 2014 after relocating to Cambodia for a few years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

But although he speculated that the atom was mostly empty space rather than a homogenous mass speckled with charged nuggets, he had not yet conceived an alternative model.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

In conceiving the story, they also wanted to avoid the “cottage industry” that had popped up around Bourdain’s death, which focused on the mystery of his final days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

Chicago gave credit to Parazaider for conceiving of the band’s distinct instrumentation, and the work ethic that made them stars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025

I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it disgusted me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë