preconceived idea
Example Sentences
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"I had a really specific preconceived idea of her," she admitted during our conversation.
From Salon • May 10, 2023
"One of the problems we have, of course, is that there's a preconceived idea of what romantic fiction actually is," she says.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2023
“They had a preconceived idea, regardless of what evidence was presented, that he was guilty,” he said.
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2021
“We don’t have any preconceived idea about it.”
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2020
Let me say here that there are very few men—and above all, women—whose spirit is completely free; that is, in a condition capable of accepting, without any preconceived idea, new or unexplained facts.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille
