preconceives

present tense third-person singular of preconceive

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Verb
  • Peter thinks he's won — Milo is home, the threat to his family is gone — but not so fast.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Grace thinks Pam is talking about herself, in the wake of her husband’s death.
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The new movie will follow the story of a 12-year-old boy who dreams of being a professional basketball player, producers said.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Miami will need to avoid repeating history to keep its College Football Playoff dreams alive.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • The rest of the symptoms can often be traced to other ingredients in wheat – especially fructans, a type of fermentable carbohydrate in the FODMAP family – or to the brain’s powerful influence on how the gut perceives distress.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Like other political leaders with an exaggerated sense of their own importance, Netanyahu perceives himself as indispensable, and his leadership as the only thing standing between his country and catastrophe.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Cortese plays a Greek diner owner who is living with dementia and imagines himself as a late-night talk show host.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The young blood’s plan is to kill the Kalis, an apex predator said to be unkillable, and bring its head home to dad, who Dek imagines will finally accept him as his son with the right trophy kill.
    Andy Crump, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Barzilay predicts that in many low-income countries AI will soon be integrated into health systems similar to how much of Africa skipped over landlines and went straight to cell phones.
    NPR, NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
  • However, the Los Angeles Dodgers have a hole in the outfield, and Bleacher Report's Joel Reuter predicts Bellinger will go back to his former team.
    Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Just ask 26-year-old Hunter McVey, a fitness model and influencer who suspects his OnlyFans account may have contributed to his own instant transformation into a primetime TV star.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Episode 2 begins with the immediate fallout of Joe's death; Zoë suspects foul play and vows to hunt down his killer.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Yet, the lack of quality writing and fresh ideas (or even inspired ways to connect to the source material) dooms the project.
    Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • To find the killer, Sherlock Holmes and Watson will have to brave desolate moors before a family curse dooms the newest heirs.
    Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Preconceives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preconceives. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.

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