conception
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By the first 1,000 days, we mean the period from conception to a child’s second birthday.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
As they celebrate America’s 250th birthday, they are also contemplating the relevance of their orientation to the nation’s conception of itself.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
She favors a more pluralist conception of “religious diversity, individual choice, toleration, and even celebration of religious difference.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Weinbach also said that Kimi K3 “doesn’t really change anything” in terms of its compute economics, adding that the conception that open models are cheap to run isn’t necessarily true.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Before my conception, she had agreed to my father’s outlandish plan to determine my sex.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Devastated by Nazi Germany's forces during World War II, Poland has significantly improved relations with its Western neighbour since entering the EU and NATO, but some historical conceptions of Berlin remain.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
But the two statesmen had different conceptions of governance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
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
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
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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