conception
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Men are now joining women in obsessing over trimester zero, a coinage referring to the months leading up to conception.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
By chance, however, he'd ended up in the birthplace of hip-hop, right at the moment of conception.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
The pattern illustrated his grand conception of the sequoia life cycle.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
The titular hero begins his digressive story with a comic account of his own conception; at his birth his nose is accidentally smashed by the “man-midwife,” Dr. Slop.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
It suggests that the problem probably wasn’t with the overall conception of the message at all, and that maybe all the campaign needed was a little gold box.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing conception
Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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"Jane Eyre" -- Chapters I-IV
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Word Generation Weekly - Series 3
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