preconception
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She urged women who’ve dealt with issues like anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder to make preconception and pregnancy appointments with care providers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
“I think the preconception is that these are self-centered show offs,” Lanteri said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
The team found that women who experienced higher preconception stress had higher mean glucose levels.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2024
“I do know there’s this preconception that the festival is a little more of a film nerd thing,” Huntsinger says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
Then there are others where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing, or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high-colored magical confusion takes permanent hold.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
It prompts us, as we bob about, to reflect on our own proclivities and preconceptions, our patterns of reception and perception.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Few are naive enough to think Supreme Court justices have no preconceptions about how a case will go.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026
Discarding any preconceptions about Eurovision, it is delightfully, mesmerisingly bonkers.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
In Arizona, the overhaul started about a decade ago with the closing of underperforming, 6,000-square-foot locations that fit many people’s preconceptions of thrift as “that dark, dirty store on the corner,” O’Neal said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
Absurd perhaps, but variants of this explanation in less transparent contexts might carry considerable force for people with strong enough preconceptions.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Vocabulary lists containing preconception
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: pre-
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