How to Use conceive in a Sentence
conceive
verb
- As conceived by the committee, the bill did not raise taxes.
- When the writer conceived this role, he had a specific actor in mind to play the part.
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The house was conceived to flow from room to room without any doors!
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Christiane Lemieux,
House Beautiful,
6 Mar. 2020
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The time away also gave you more time to conceive the new stage show.
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Gary Graff,
cleveland,
22 Dec. 2021
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As if he'd been conceived in a lab based on parts of past greats.
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Shawn Windsor,
Detroit Free Press,
29 May 2018
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The baby is conceived from a donor egg and the sperm of one of the intended parents.
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Avichai Scher,
NBC News,
31 Mar. 2020
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But this is not the first strobe weapon ever conceived—not by a long shot.
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David Hambling,
Popular Mechanics,
11 Feb. 2019
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The couple has been trying to conceive for more than six years.
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Georgia Slater,
PEOPLE.com,
14 Sep. 2021
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That is, until the teens begin to doubt the premise of the game and the society that conceived it.
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Emma Grey Ellis,
Wired,
13 Feb. 2020
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Ben was born after the couple tried for three years to conceive.
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Ale Russian,
PEOPLE.com,
13 July 2020
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In the process of trying to conceive, couples often use the word we.
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Fiorella Valdesolo,
WSJ,
8 June 2022
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Luther conceived of a church in some ways very close to Catholicism.
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Marilynne Robinson,
New Republic,
12 Dec. 2017
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The film and the cartoon series it is based on were even conceived with the goal of selling toys to children.
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Patrick Cooley,
cleveland.com,
26 Jan. 2018
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Or the men who conceived and crafted the policies that led to those secret sessions in the first place?
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Time,
13 Apr. 2018
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Aviva and Sam try and try and try to conceive a child the old-fashioned way.
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Bethanne Patrick,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2022
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Not a mass force, but a very effective and well-conceived force.
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CBS News,
29 Jan. 2020
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The tiny baby sweater Okun knits helps her to conceive of new life after the death of two friends.
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Josephine Livingstone,
The New Republic,
9 Apr. 2018
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Lewis cannot seem to conceive that perhaps this kid was just a cruel and callous piece of work.
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Jacob Bacharach,
The New Republic,
12 Oct. 2023
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Sarah and her husband had been trying to conceive in the months leading up to the pandemic.
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Kate Smith,
CBS News,
10 Aug. 2020
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For years, the couple tried to conceive and had three miscarriages.
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ABC News,
9 Sep. 2021
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The gravel plaza that Mayne conceived as a village square in fact is a stark, sketchy void.
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John King,
SFChronicle.com,
9 Feb. 2020
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Samsung isn’t the first to conceive a rollable phone concept.
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Chris Smith,
BGR,
16 Dec. 2021
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To that end, the criminal purge wasn’t conceived of as the endpoint, but a small first step.
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Ken Bensinger,
Time,
14 June 2018
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The amount of waste that goes on in London households in this item of coal can hardly be conceived.
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Daniel C. Schlenoff,
Scientific American,
1 June 2018
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To me, 30 seemed like the right age to start trying to conceive.
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Kaelyn Forde,
Allure,
30 May 2018
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Adding to the pressure to conceive quickly was Suvari's age.
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Benjamin Vanhoose,
PEOPLE.com,
9 Apr. 2021
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At such moments, to conceive of the bike as a vehicle is perhaps not quite right.
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Zoë Beery,
The Atlantic,
31 May 2022
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Voss is not the first to allege that a fertility doctor used his own sperm to conceive a child.
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Washington Post,
26 May 2021
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And when was 65 conceived in relation to the rest of your work?
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Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Mar. 2023
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In a court hearing, the donor’s lawyer said his client wanted to help parents who could not conceive.
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Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA TODAY,
28 Apr. 2023
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