conceive
Example Sentences
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“I don’t know that I conceived it as that much of a choice, as I still had time and I want to redeem that time,” he says.
Gentrification has resulted in dramatic change in South L.A. since Halsey first conceived the park, but she says the monument is less about resistance than inspiration.
From Los Angeles Times
The artery was conceived as a way to dodge the Persian Gulf and bring Saudi exports closer to Western markets.
That’s on top of how the rotund beavers in “Hoppers” have been conceived for maximum cuteness.
From Los Angeles Times
From these narrow scraps grew “The Star of Redemption,” an audacious 1921 book conceived under fire that asks what remains of love—both human and divine—after war has marched a continent into the mud.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
