conceptions

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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

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

What might have looked like a shared curriculum was really three different educational projects reflective of three institutions with different conceptions of themselves—which is to say, three different missions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

There is a fundamental difference between these two conceptions of the Scientific Revolution.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton