conceive

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In 2006, Conceive, a magazine based in Orlando, Florida, whose slogan is “We’re the experts at getting pregnant”, found that 46% of its readers were younger than 30.

From The Guardian • May 10, 2016

Conceive of nature as basically the charismatic mammals and plants, plus a few pretty fluttering insects, and perhaps it's hard to see our place in it.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2013

He shortly parodied his drawing-room-pink period: Conceive me if you can A cr�me-de-la-cr�me young man; A fervid Etonian Anti-Gladstonian Down-with-the-rich young man .

From Time Magazine Archive

Conceive the wholesome panic you would cause, if you combined into "unions" like the working-classes, and every girl in London bound herself not to flirt for the entire season!

From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Oliphant, Laurence

Conceive a society in which results were always calculable: so many men, so much fuel, so much consequent horsepower, and Mr. Hoover would make for it an admirable benevolent dictator; for he is benevolent.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)