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conceive
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conceive of someone or something
to think of or invent the notion of someone or something. Who on earth ever conceived of doing this? Edison conceived of many very useful things that we now use every day.

conceive of someone or something as someone or something

to think of someone as being someone else; to think of something as being something else. I can't conceive of you as a pilot. I can conceive of this grassy spot as a very interesting setting for a cottage.
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See also supra note 265 (discussing the conceivability of natural law).
The natural law basis of legal obligation: international antitrust ... by Moore, Joel Brandon / Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The stark conceivability of the "other" as less-than-human is raised--and encased in sacred memory--to be reviewed daily as holy obligation.
Unvarnished Truth: The Chemistry of Shame in Primo Levi by BOONE, SUSAN L. / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
The Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs collected sixty thousand signatures, calling on the government to endorse these measures because "the conceivability of genocide against minority groups, here in our own country, particularly against the Black people can not be wholly discounted.
Birth control and the black community in the 1960s: genocide or power ... by Caron, Simone M. / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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