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as in prejudging
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as in thinking
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Shaina Montiel says her mother stills cries thinking about her harrowing experience with hantavirus at age 5, which, according to the CDC, can have a fatality rate up to 38%, depending on the type of syndrome caused by it.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
12 May 2026 -
Mathematicians spend most of their time thinking about what’s knowable.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
11 May 2026
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Every kid grows up dreaming of playing on their hometown team in a big playoff game, stepping up in the most crucial of moments.—
Staff Report,
Twin Cities,
9 May 2026
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Eric Nadel grew up in Brooklyn dreaming of becoming the voice of the Rangers.—
Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
8 May 2026
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This knowledge is critical for monitoring and predicting how our ocean-climate system is shifting, affecting both people and ecosystems in our changing world.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
8 May 2026
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Twenty years ago, during my first year as a geoscience undergraduate, a lecturer told me that predicting when and where the next major eruption would take place was a pipe dream — the implication being that volcanoes are far too idiosyncratic and mercurial to have much in common with one another.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 May 2026
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Bischofberger is credited with conceiving the idea for Warhol to do portrait commissions of people in his circle.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
9 May 2026
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But the odds of conceiving identical triplets without fertility treatments are more like one in 1,000,000.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
30 Apr. 2026
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The scheme involved pitchers allegedly predetermining the results of prop bets, as outlined in a 23-page indictment unsealed in November.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Abraham Lincoln was wary of the doctrine, perceiving that any such notion of divine inevitability could be used to justify land grabs and war.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Kepler devoted much of his career to figuring out optics, and was arguably the first scientific thinker to articulate the difference between seeing and perceiving.—
Rebecca Boyle,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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In the year 2027 (which is somehow just one year from now, please stop, passage of time), Children of Men imagines a world where women have been infertile for years, dooming humanity to a slow extinction.—
Grace Dean,
Space.com,
2 May 2026
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If that’s true, then the YIMBY activists pushing for zoning reforms around the country are making a terrible mistake, dooming themselves to repeating California’s failed experiment.—
Rogé Karma,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2026
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Trevor began imagining elaborate criminal schemes.—
Matt Thompson,
SPIN,
11 May 2026
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Just imagining the flesh of any citrus coming in contact with her genitals made her body tingle and turned her mouth sour.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 May 2026
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“Preconceiving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preconceiving. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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