conceive

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

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

Until, that is, they conceive of a plan to get Lady Jemima to accept Lord Wynstowe as her husband.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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

How did you come to conceive of how to depict people’s online life?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 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

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

In attempting to run, he conceives that he passes the ground with astonishing rapidity.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

The general effect is more of 10 diligently prepared classroom lectures than of a broadly conceived historical narrative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The technology was first conceived decades ago but came to the fore during the Covid-19 pandemic, when Moderna and Pfizer developed vaccines that were highly effective against serious forms of the illness.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Mike Hawes, boss of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, the primary car industry lobby group, said the ZEV mandate was "conceived under vastly different conditions".

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Enacted in 2003 and launched in 2006, Part D was conceived as insurance for prescription drugs, including brand names and generics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

How could they, when being conceived at the same time in the same womb had done nothing to bind us together?

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

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

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

But Bi is after more than elaborate dress-up, conceiving each episode as an exploration of how movies amplify and comment on life’s cavalcade of emotions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 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