How to Use preconception in a Sentence

preconception

noun
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  • I came to the lecture without any preconceptions.
  • When Yeti named its first 29er, the company gave a nod to that preconception, calling it the Big Top.
    — Gordy Megroz, Outside Online, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Many people deal with this by shoring up facts to match their preconceptions.
    — Philly.com, 6 July 2017
  • Now the broader culture needs to consider how to change its preconceptions if 90 is the new 65.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 4 June 2017
  • Pew came out with a survey a few days ago, and the results indicate that my preconception was wrong.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2010
  • This is one of the reasons that preconception care is very important.
    — Robin Elise Weiss, Phd, Parents, 30 July 2024
  • Good players develop over the course of the season and can change some preconceptions with strong play under the spotlight.
    — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • In the process, preconceptions are being debunked, Paret said.
    — Charlotte Huff, Kaiser Health News, 15 May 2017
  • Barboza says that because the boys’ side is still budding, there are no preconceptions about what an athlete should look like.
    — Ethan Fuller, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Part of what Langford wanted to accomplish with his songs for Four Lost Souls was to sort through those preconceptions and square them with the history of the region.
    — Joshua Miller, Chicago Reader, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Don’t fall into the popular preconception that all Cuban cigars are strong.
    — Richard Carleton Hacker, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Maybe the problem is that too many people are working backward from a preconception.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 15 Dec. 2017
  • And to describe a thing can be to reassert its reality in the face of inflated claims and false preconceptions.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Without knowledge of who the person attached to the account is, preconceptions around that person are wiped away, at least a little bit.
    — Josie Colt, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The Broncos themselves even fell victim to the preconceptions about Siemian.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Thanks to her, the movie’s notion of casting aside ageist preconceptions takes on a highly meta-sense of significance.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2024
  • Charcot was a gifted artist, and often said that what made a good physician was the ability to see without preconceptions.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • What were the most impressive takeaways from the Haley campaign on how to overcome voter preconceptions and bias here?
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Burns, Novick and their colleagues had to confront their own memories and preconceptions about the war, sorting out their personal mythologies from the facts.
    — Alyssa Rosenberg, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The preconception is that Tutsis are taller and have narrower features.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2011
  • And when history is reflected through a prism of preconceptions and prejudices, can the truth ever be known?
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Everything’s on the table, with no preconceptions and no sacred cows.
    — Thomas Gryta, WSJ, 26 June 2018
  • Over the course of the movie, the participants — drawn from a variety of ages and racial backgrounds — acknowledge and break down their preconceptions about one another.
    — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • There continue to be preconceptions about what is considered suitable for a woman or for a man.
    — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024
  • There is something new, though, about doing so while also being honest with your preconceptions about the restaurant and its clientele; to do so is to risk coming off like a jackass in the process.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Nothing about her appearance fits the usual preconceptions of what somebody with her title might look like.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2017
  • Store them with your preconceptions, your dogma and your stubbornness.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 June 2020
  • And Ortiz’s future vision is jarring enough to shake any preconception loose.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • When so much information is being flung at us daily, fitting the world into easily canned preconceptions may seem to be the only way to cope – to make sense of it all.
    — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2017
  • A few days spent roaming around Baltimore in April — my first visit in 20 years — quickly dispelled my preconceptions.
    — David Amsden, Smithsonian, 31 July 2017

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