preconception

Example Sentences

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"People have a preconception about children like Jake and he’s blown that out the water," he said.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2024

Future research can investigate additional variables like sleep quality or neighborhood safety as well as the effect of preconception stress on the baby's health.

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

“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