conceptions

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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

For Xi, the party’s earlier conceptions of a multiethnic China were too weak a foundation for building a modern nation-state, according to Oidtmann.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Glass, 88, is seen as the greatest living US composer and perhaps the most influential in the post-World War II era, shattering long-held linear conceptions of classical music and enthusiastically incorporating non-Western forms.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

Such scenarios are common throughout the world, largely because contemporary conceptions of antisemitism are shaped by mandated Holocaust education rather than comprehensive teaching on Jew-hatred in all its forms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

The pride of the game was the depth of its conceptions, Fischer contended, not triumph by mechanical means.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady