How to Use conception in a Sentence

conception

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  • They have a clear conception of how the process works.
  • They have very different conceptions of the proper role of government.
  • He directed the project from conception to production.
  • Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope in space.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2021
  • That liberty is a conception of the modern West about how artists should work, and it’s on view in the second show.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The road from conception to company wasn’t a straight one, according to Moody.
    — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • She is only allowed to take the medications up to nine weeks after conception.
    — Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN, 8 Jan. 2022
  • That's where the traditional conception of voting comes in.
    — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Three years after launch and decades after first conception, Parker has finally arrived.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Uranus, who was both the son and consort of Gaea, is not the only product of immaculate conception cited by the director.
    — CNN, 20 Dec. 2021
  • However, getting the virus itself appeared to slightly lower the chances of conception, likely due to fevers reducing sperm count.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Just as Picasso saw psychiatrists as the enemies of a deeper vision of life and death, biographers may be the enemies of a deeper conception of art.
    — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The movie in its conception and even from the script stage was always a wild ride.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
  • Has your conception of what the genre is and what it can be shifted over the years?
    — Christopher Byrd, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Given the ways the world has changed over the past five years, has your conception of populism changed as well?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2021
  • Just the fact that in the 1930s, the conception was this idea of a medical exam, which was this kind of strip test.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 1 Aug. 2024
  • His Tips of the Day are a prick’s conception of what a nice person is supposed to act like.
    — Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The look of the films is something that can’t be determined a priori of the rest of its conception.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 16 Apr. 2018
  • They were involved in the conception and the ideas and the execution.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2022
  • Many people had the conception that a library was racks and racks of books and tables and chairs.
    — Lynn Horsley, kansascity, 11 Jan. 2018
  • This conception hits the nail on the head of what the modern jewelry client is seeking.
    — Marley Gifford, Town & Country, 31 Oct. 2022
  • My life had value from the moment of conception and so do all lives.
    — Amy Simonson, CNN, 14 Mar. 2022
  • There were a lot of parts where the song changed a lot from my initial conception through the actual singing process.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 5 July 2023
  • Twitter, in his conception, would be a true marketplace of ideas, a place where the wisdom of crowds would push the cream to the top.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The world only exists in your eyes—your conception of it.
    — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Esquire, 7 Mar. 2017
  • But the character, in our conception of her, has a lot of things going on.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Most people have some kind of hazy conception of how the stock market works.
    — Bloomberg.com, 27 July 2017
  • This classic scent hasn’t gone out of style since its conception in 1990.
    — Fiona Tapp, CNN Underscored, 29 Nov. 2020
  • The pair even called on friends and family to help bring their wedding vision to life from conception to set up the morning of.
    — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The fragility of conception isn’t a bug but a feature of this cinematic soap bubble of a dreamy wonder.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2024

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