How to Use preconception in a Sentence

preconception

noun

• I came to the lecture without any preconceptions.
• A lot of people have preconceptions about what a great gamer looks like.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 27 May 2025
• Many people deal with this by shoring up facts to match their preconceptions.
  — Philly.com, 6 July 2017
• Nobody had any preconception of what was going on.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
• Art ought to be something alive that can speak for itself, freely and without preconceptions.
  — Simon Njami, Artforum, 16 Apr. 2024
• This is one of the reasons that preconception care is very important.
  — Robin Elise Weiss, Phd, Parents, 30 July 2024
• Pew came out with a survey a few days ago, and the results indicate that my preconception was wrong.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2010
• Maybe the problem is that too many people are working backward from a preconception.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 15 Dec. 2017
• Barboza says that because the boys’ side is still budding, there are no preconceptions about what an athlete should look like.
  — Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
• Store them with your preconceptions, your dogma and your stubbornness.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 June 2020
• And that preconception might come from our cognitive bias as human beings.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 July 2021
• There are no preconceptions, molds or formulas for a place like Dadeland.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
• Don’t fall into the popular preconception that all Cuban cigars are strong.
  — Richard Carleton Hacker, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2022
• In the process, preconceptions are being debunked, Paret said.
  — Charlotte Huff, Kaiser Health News, 15 May 2017
• The main thing isn’t to play into the preconceptions of formalwear, but to chip away at them to find a personal style that works for you.
  — Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
• Everything’s on the table, with no preconceptions and no sacred cows.
  — Thomas Gryta, WSJ, 26 June 2018
• There continue to be preconceptions about what is considered suitable for a woman or for a man.
  — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024
• Good players develop over the course of the season and can change some preconceptions with strong play under the spotlight.
  — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• Nothing about her appearance fits the usual preconceptions of what somebody with her title might look like.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2017
• Thanks to her, the movie’s notion of casting aside ageist preconceptions takes on a highly meta-sense of significance.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2024
• And to describe a thing can be to reassert its reality in the face of inflated claims and false preconceptions.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
• And Ortiz’s future vision is jarring enough to shake any preconception loose.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• Charcot was a gifted artist, and often said that what made a good physician was the ability to see without preconceptions.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Those who haven’t seen ballet before can have fairly rigid preconceptions of it as prissy or elitist or hard to understand.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The preconception is that Tutsis are taller and have narrower features.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2011
• Zen Buddhism calls this shoshin, beginner’s mind, or the ability to see life with fresh eyes, free of preconceptions.
  — Colin Bedell, Them, 18 Mar. 2025
• And when history is reflected through a prism of preconceptions and prejudices, can the truth ever be known?
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 1 Nov. 2017
• Without knowledge of who the person attached to the account is, preconceptions around that person are wiped away, at least a little bit.
  — Josie Colt, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2018
• Now the broader culture needs to consider how to change its preconceptions if 90 is the new 65.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 4 June 2017
• Inside your company, what boundaries need to be pushed, what preconceptions need to be challenged, what policies need to be revised?
  — Chris Westfall, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024