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“It was fun,” Saleh said about the process, which took six months from conception to delivery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
He criticised the tournament's hydration breaks - a classic piece of Bielsa-ese - saying they "interfere with the culturally constructed conception of interpreting football. They add nothing..."
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
For many years, the Supreme Court refused to embrace this two-dimensional conception of equal protection.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
Maurel says it typically takes about 20 years from the conception of a new battery technology to its commercialization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
His conception had been much more conservative, based in fact on the New Year’s party at La Ida, but if it was going to be like that why Hughie was willing to take credit.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
But TV had never seen anything quite like the Krofft shows, with its Day-Glo aesthetic, crazy conceptions and combination of puppets, costume puppets and costumed human characters into a half-hour comedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
These aspirations speak to customers’ greatest desires, their dreams for the future, and their conceptions of who they are and who they strive to be.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 27, 2026
Strategic conceptions are ripe to be overhauled in the heat of crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
By untethering the legal doctrine around company control from its traditional conceptions, the ruling introduced uncertainty precisely where Delaware law had long provided clarity.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
Nazism and Lysenkoism were based on dramatically opposed conceptions of heredity—but the parallels between the two movements are striking.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing conception
Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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"Jane Eyre" -- Chapters I-IV
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