How to Use conception in a Sentence

conception

noun
  • 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.
  • These symptoms can occur with or without conception taking place.
    Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Enlarge / Artist's conception of Bungie taking aim at anti-choice activists.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
  • Light is an intervention; darkness is original, primordial, the backdrop against which conception is forged.
    Suzannah Showler, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • For Baldwin, love was the key that unlocks the door to a more healing and liberating conception of God and experience of faith.
    Danté Stewart, CNN, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Lots of Republican voters are pro-life, yet do most or nearly all favor banning the procedure from conception and without exceptions?
    Damon Linker, The Week, 3 May 2022
  • This conception of character is relevant today because many voters don't pay close attention to politics and lack knowledge of how government works.
    Barry M. Mitnick / Made By History, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
  • This is antithetical to Shakespeare’s (and Macbeth’s) conception of this noble figure.
    Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 29 Apr. 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
  • This is an artist’s conception of the Space Starship, which will land astronauts on the moon.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2023
  • One palette takes 20 weeks to make — from conception to store.
    Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The conception was great but the execution has been a mess.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Despite the common conceptions of deserts as hot, there are cold deserts as well.
    Christina Nunez, National Geographic, 12 June 2019

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