preconception

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The study, published this week in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, also noted an association between preconception exposure to phthalates and changes in women's reproductive hormones, as well as increased inflammation and oxidative stress.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2023

“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

"There's a preconception that it's older people who use Park," says the firm's director of marketing, Katherine Scott.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2022

“People come with a certain preconception about incarcerated people or about criminalization and, to me, art fails when they leave with the same idea,” she says.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2022

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