preconceiving

present participle of preconceive

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for preconceiving
Verb
  • Instead of disclosing her condition to her employer and circles of friends, Sickler pulled back from modeling with little explanation, thinking that the absence of her hair would certainly result in the loss of her contract.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This includes thinking vertically and adding hooks to dangle gear on wall space or finding ways to pop in clever items, like storage benches, that double as organizational features and help eliminate dust buildup.
    Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That means Southerners dreaming of a vacation at sea no longer need to tack on a trip to Florida or New Orleans to set sail.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2025
  • All of this left many of them dreaming of being a stay-at-home wife supported and protected by a rich and masculine man.
    Julia Ioffe, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And analysts are predicting prices will go even lower.
    Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Animal models, on the other hand, are more biologically complete but expensive, slow to yield results, and not always reliable for predicting human outcomes.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In an interview with The Times from April 2024, Ringwald revealed the story behind conceiving her daughter Mathilda.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Millions of babies have been born through IVF, which involves combining eggs and sperm in a laboratory to create an embryo for couples having difficulty conceiving.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Shifting gears, rather than perceiving AI as a competitor, budding therapists would be wise to perceive AI as a collaborator.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • In 2024, Nepal ranked 107th out of 180 countries on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, with 84% of people perceiving government corruption to be a major problem.
    Nir Kshetri, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The new council approved it, seemingly dooming Gillham’s project.
    Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Consider the two-year cycle of Moore’s Law, which changed the world and inspired new corporate giants while dooming others.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Green’s photographs capture not just the heaviness of choice, but the joy of imagining different lives.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 23 Oct. 2025
  • And imagining a world without our complexities and maladies was spirit expanding.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Indy remains under a freeze warning Thursday night as the National Weather Service is forecasting temperatures in the low 30s.
    Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Netflix is now forecasting a 2025 operating margin of 29% (compared with its prior expectations for a 30% reported operating margin) because of the impact of the Brazilian tax dispute.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Preconceiving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preconceiving. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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