preconceives

Definition of preconceivesnext
present tense third-person singular of preconceive

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Verb
  • The Wall Street investment bank thinks three companies can benefit from the new supply and demand dynamic.
    Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2026
  • One thinks of the hundred brothers that Donald Antrim imagined, gathering in the ancestral home to honor their father’s memory and ritually slaughtering one of their own.
    Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • That is another area in which dreams smack into the reality of Cuban state, which owns 80% of all arable land.
    Sarah Moreno Updated March 24, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Lizzy still dreams of reopening Roses eventually.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Sparkd conceives personalized workout programs at the gym based on markers, including balancing and motor skills, and dual-task performance.
    Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • In a bid to increase his nation’s number of rug rats, Władysław Grochowski, owner of one of Poland’s biggest hotel chains, has pledged to throw a party for every couple who conceives while staying at his properties.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When the brain perceives threat or stress, a small structure called the amygdala activates the body’s alarm system.
    Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2026
  • In a process called simultaneous contrast, our brain perceives colored objects in relation to the color of the background that they’re viewed against.
    Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Made on a shoestring budget and expanded from a student film, director John Carpenter‘s feature debut imagines space travel as something closer to a dead-end job.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • At least, that’s how Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang imagines work could be one day at Nvidia.
    Jake Angelo, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • And Ripi fancies itself as a disruptor.
    Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Jackson fancies himself an American Sadat, performing the most sensitive, high-profile diplomatic missions for the president but without the accountability of appointive office.
    Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The forecasting service predicts 11 to 16 named storms, including 4 to 7 hurricanes and 2 to 4 major hurricanes.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
  • AccuWeather predicts a 40% possibility of more than 14 named storms in 2026 and a 15% possibility of more than 16 storms.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The death looks like suicide, but Babak suspects murder.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Tom is like if Kinnaman’s Holder, from AMC’s adaptation of the Danish drama The Killing, were actually as wicked as everybody suspects him of being, and the actor is having a blast preening and sneering.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
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“Preconceives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preconceives. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.

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