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“In some ways, I’m at the top of my powers as a conceiver and creator, but I still have things to prove,” said Mr. Jones said, if only to himself.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2012

The trip’s conceiver, Erling Kagge, a 47-year-old Norwegian adventurer, had ascended Mount Everest and trekked on foot to both the North and South poles.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2011

“Ella,” solidly directed by Rob Ruggiero, the original show’s conceiver along with Mr. Garrison, is not quite a one-woman show.

From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2010

Ms. Warren has two roles here: officially, as head of Congressional oversight for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and unofficially, as chief conceiver of and booster for a new consumer financial protection agency.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2010

The mind of the performer must be sympathetic with that of the author; it must be cast in the same mould with the original conceiver of the piece.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various