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Clearly Ms. Footer conceives of Bradley as something of a tortured Romantic; what’s unclear—in fact, what is unknowable—is whether Bradley did himself.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Perhaps the big divide here isn’t about what one wants one’s family to look like, but in how one conceives of parenthood in the first place.

From Slate • Sep. 13, 2025

Egypt, along with other Arab states, remains committed to the long-time international formula for peace, the two-state solution which conceives an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2025

That’s perhaps because Kaurismäki conceives these sturdy people to be wiser than most about how rare it is to come across someone with matching wounds.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2023

One conceives that, like his own Raimundo, he has been invited to enter it, has taken his fill of its pleasures, and has found his mouth filled with ashes.

From Froth by Palacio Vald?s, Armando