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- adjective To
conceive something in a new way
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Mr. PURDUM: Well, he certainly - I think he wants to radically reconceive the mission of government, and he thinks that great swathes of what the government has come to do over the 20th century it has no business doing.
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And so instead of going, 'Let's reconceive this and make it a different person,' we said, 'let's try and get Danny Pudi to do it.'
Chuck Cast on Getting Naked and Community's Danny Pudi Disrupting Jeffster! 2011
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In 2010, La Maison Champs Elysees commissioned Maison Martin Margiela to redesign and reconceive a big part of the hotel.
Evelyne Politanoff: La Maison Champs-Elysees by Maison Martin Margiela Evelyne Politanoff 2011
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Mr. PURDUM: Well, he certainly - I think he wants to radically reconceive the mission of government, and he thinks that great swathes of what the government has come to do over the 20th century it has no business doing.
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Today, our society tends to stereotype Mexicans as recent immigrants; Eva's family predates even the Pilgrims on this continent, forcing us to reconceive the way we think about the place of Mexico and Mexicans in the history of the New World.
Faces of America: The True Dichotomy of Eva Longoria Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2010
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In 2010, La Maison Champs Elysees commissioned Maison Martin Margiela to redesign and reconceive a big part of the hotel.
Evelyne Politanoff: La Maison Champs-Elysees by Maison Martin Margiela Evelyne Politanoff 2011
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We need to reconceive the job of public office as a management stewardship function, not as a platform to wage ideological crusades and triumph over the forces of evil.
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Moreover, 81 percent of business executives believe that IT could support their units more effectively by forging better partnerships to reconceive and upgrade existing processes and systems and by innovating with new technology-supported capabilities.
Ben Kerschberg: Why Today's Chief Information Officer Will Be Tomorrow's Chief Executive Ben Kerschberg 2011
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So while trying to reconceive the beige boxes that have been on view, I have been thinking of stylish early-20th-century Parisian apartments, in particular those of legendary interior designers Madeleine Castaing and Elsie de Wolfe, with their leopard-print carpets, paneled walls, ornate wallpapers and big potted palms.
Not Your Grandma's Patterned Carpet Rita Konig 2011
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Today, our society tends to stereotype Mexicans as recent immigrants; Eva's family predates even the Pilgrims on this continent, forcing us to reconceive the way we think about the place of Mexico and Mexicans in the history of the New World.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Faces of America: The True Dichotomy of Eva Longoria Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2010
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