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• I didn't think the cat had gotten out, but either she did or those kittens are a case of immaculate conception.From the entry Immaculate Conception
• His latest remarks went far afield of any mainstream conception.From the entry afield
• This conception of American identity based primarily on shared ideas took hold on the right.2020, Nativism, Nationalism, and Patriotism, page 121. From the entry proposition nation
• Whereas the female invests heavily in the wake of conception, the male invests heavily prior to conception.2019, Steve Paul Moxon, “The Sexes Serve to Purge Mutations by Selection on Males, Boosting the Function of Sex to Maintain Genomic…. From the entry foil
• The purest form of combat—that which is without conception or strategy, the strategy of strategylessness.2019 April 5 [1991], Ian McDonald, King of Morning, Queen of Day, JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. From the entry strategylessness
• Jackass’ affinity with an avant-gardist conception of praxis and the performativity characteristic of performance.2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 72. From the entry avant-gardist
• That last conception of realism is certainly not the same as the notion of lifelikeness.2013, Dominic Gregory, Showing, Sensing, and Seeming, page 161. From the entry lifelikeness
• In the Firthian conception, prosodies are phonological units with a structural domain.2013, Oliver Niebuhr, Understanding Prosody: The Role of Context, Function and Communication, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 201. From the entry Firthian
• Moreover, local governance was neither participative in scope nor democratic in conception.2010 July 29, Bina Agarwal, “From Absence to Negotiated Presence”, in Gender and Green Governance: The Political Economy of Women's…. From the entry entmoot
• The judicial branch of government in Norden is framed around the conception of the sovereignty of parliament.2008, Josep M. Colomer, editor, Comparative European Politics, 3rd edition, Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry unicameral
• He now rejects reliabilism in favor of a socio-historical conception of knowledge.2008 November 28, Albert Casullo, “Analyzing a priori knowledge”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, →DOI. From the entry reliabilism
• He was not a Leninist because he would have had no conception of historical self-determination.2007 December 4, Terry Eagleton, The Guardian. From the entry heilsgeschichte
• On such a multi-dimensional conception, aestheticness obviously becomes very much a matter of degree.2003, Jerrold Levinson, “Philosophical Aesthetics: An Overview”, in Jerrold Levinson, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, Oxford…. From the entry aestheticness
• Durkheim took from the apriorists a conception of human categories but infused that notion with social history.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order. From the entry apriorist
• An artist's fanciful conception of a superplant of the future produced through the processes of DNA technology.2000, I. Edward Alcamo, DNA Technology: The Awesome Skill, page 260. From the entry superplant
• Bleeding, products of conception in the cervical canal or cervical pathology (e.g. ectopion) should be excluded.1998, Progress in obstetrics and gynaecology, volume 13, page 312. From the entry ectopion
• But the interaction of conceptions of Us and Them went further, through archetyping and anti-typing.1997, James Belich, “Myth, Race, and Identity in New Zealand”, in The New Zealand Journal of History, volume 31, number 1, Auckland…. From the entry archetype
• Conception means that a cow is served by a bull and that she becomes pregnant.1996, Puck Bonnier et al., Dairy Cattle Husbandry, Agromisa Foundation 2004. From the entry serve
• The two conceptions of strategy are in fact derived from two ways of thinking about war.1993, Herman Parret, “Strategic Rationality”, in Stuart Rennie, transl., The Aesthetics of Communication: Pragmatics and Beyond (Library…. From the entry polemology
• Love, as the instrument of creative agencies and cosmic perpetuity, is no banausic conception.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page i. From the entry banausic
• "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" is lusty, a blockbuster conception.1961, “Ives”, in Twentieth Century Music In The Western Hemisphere, J. B. Lippincott, page 146. From the entry blockbuster
• A popular conception has fresh air bowling tipsy men over when they come into contact with it.1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 109. From the entry tipsy
• Local heresies from the central conception of the good life are inevitable.1957 autumn, Norton E[nneking] Long, “Aristotle and the Study of Local Government”, in Alvin Johnson, editor, Social Research […], volume…. From the entry subpolity
• Read, a base for the metamorphist conception of the genesis of granites.1953, Report of the Session - Volume 19, page 5554. From the entry metamorphist
• This conception descended to the Church, which was ‘Catholic’ in spite of Buddhists, Confucians, and (later) Muhammadans.1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.29. From the entry catholic
• The most interesting question in their psychology is: What is their conception of the outer world?1940, Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain), Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine - Volume 34, page 309. From the entry unacoustic
• In Bakunin's conception of democracy as religious in character we trace the influence of French socialism.1919, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy, Macmillan, page 446. From the entry democracy
• So that a vegetarianistic superstition must be broken in the interests of a higher conception of religion.1919, The Indian Social Reformer, volume 30, page 417, column 1. From the entry vegetarianistic
• L'éternel recommencement, l'imitation servile des styles anciens empêchent toute conception originale.1903, Maurice Pillard Verneuil, Étude de la plante, page 2. From the entry recommencement
• Gaylors have thus carved out space for a queered conception of mothering within the heteronormative constraints of Swiftdom.2024, Lucy Britt, Brian Britt, “So Mother for That: Taylor Swift and Childless Mothering”, in Catherine M. Robb, Georgie Mills, William…. From the entry Gaylor
• Aryasamajists have an almost monotheistic conception of religion and devote special fervour to the god of fire, Agni.2022, Suzanne Chazan-Gillig, Pavitranand Ramhota, Hinduism and Popular Cults in Mauritius: Sacred Religion and Plantation Economy, Taylor…. From the entry Aryasamajist
• She transformed the writers' initial conception of Annie as a spirited but vocally average little girl into a Broadway diva.2020, James Leve, “Little girls, big voices: Annie”, in Donelle Ruwe, James Leve, editors, Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater…. From the entry belting
• A neuroqueer project not only questions typical conceptions of gender but also pivots away from normative gender categories altogether.2019 February, Justine E. Enger, “'The Disability Rights Community Was Never Mine': Neuroqueer Disidentification”, in Gender & Society…. From the entry neuroqueer
• Associating this with a certain reconfiguration of long accepted sociological ideas and conceptions, we could also speak of 'critical reconfigurationism'.2019, Jiří Šubrt, Individualism, Holism and the Central Dilemma of Sociological Theory. From the entry reconfigurationism
• Almost unbelievably, some authors have formed the erroneous conception that ‘Hobson-Jobson’ is actually the double-barrelled surname of the dictionary’s editor.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography…. From the entry double-barrelled
• Their different practices, or askeses, of attachment widen their conceptions of the divine, the self, and longing itself.2017, Holly Hillgardner, “Longing and Letting Go Together: Comparative Practices of Passionate Non-attachment”, in Longing and Letting Go…. From the entry askesis
• In presenting an absential conception of liberation as strictly limited to the cessation of experience, the Mīmāmsakas face a problem.2013, Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge: Themes in Ethics, Metaphysics and…. From the entry absential
• The use of the term illustrates a common conception of Asians in the schooling system in Ontario, the model minority myth.2013, Sang-Eun Vivien Kim, East Asian International Students’ Experiences in High School Mathematics Classrooms, page 7. From the entry Asian six-pack
• At the core of Kasarda’s conception of the aerotropolis lies the notion that space – unlike time – is fungible.2011, Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.9. From the entry fungible
• It is better to risk too broad a conception of religion than to err on the side of excessive restriction.2011, Robert Audi, Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry definatory

Meaning of conception

1. noun The act of conceiving.
2. noun The state of being conceived; the beginning.
3. noun The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.

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How do you use conception in a sentence?

Conception is used as a noun. For example: “I didn't think the cat had gotten out, but either she did or those kittens are a case of immaculate conception.”

What is a short sentence with conception?

“His latest remarks went far afield of any mainstream conception.”

What does conception mean?

Conception means the act of conceiving.