conceive
Example Sentences
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After months of trying to conceive, they have a son.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Florida law also allows non-biological fathers and mothers to establish their parentage via contractual consent when they conceive using donated sperm, eggs, or embryos.
From Slate • May 13, 2026
Few people today could imagine a world without eyeglasses, just as they could not conceive of a world without screens, an analogy that “A Four-Eyed World” often suggests.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
There are no health checks, legal safeguards preventing the donor from claiming parental rights or limits on the number of children a donor's sperm could be used to conceive.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
“We couldn’t conceive of any alternative to what we were doing.”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Vocabulary lists containing conceive
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" (1863)
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"The Tell-Tale Heart," Vocabulary from the short story
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