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  • noun Plural form of inception.

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Examples

  • It grew from its inceptions and like it or not does have a plotline that is apparent and at times surprisingly marvelous.

    Tube Bits for 02/08/2008 2008

  • Since the team's inceptions, the official colors were purple, turquoise and copper.

    I'm Irked! JDsg 2007

  • You know, Something gave us all both Religion and Science in the form of a code to crack by reconciling or unifying them both in just the right way, using them to free both the mind and the soul from the body that has been oppressed and traumatized by the misinterpretation of all religions since their respective inceptions.

    Viagra Magic Wonder Advertisement 2006

  • Although the HGP's inceptions were in the U.S., it had not taken long for mapping and sequencing the human genome to become an international venture (see Cook-Deegan 1994).

    The Human Genome Project Gannett, Lisa 2008

  • To put Appaloosa's quarter in perspective, the firm's funds, which take concentrated positions in the debt of struggling companies as well as making stock bets, have excelled since their separate inceptions in 1993 and 1995.

    Credit Crunch Hurts Hedge-Fund Stars 2008

  • Since their inceptions, though, social networking websites have gone through massive changes.

    Beth Appel: Online Social Networking and the Quarterlife Crisis 2008

  • From the earliest inceptions of prefab housing, such as the Lustron, to recent prefab designers like Andrew Maynard, a fundamental idea behind prefab manufacturing has been to use the auto industry as a model for the mass-production of houses which may be the only viable rationale for this being a logical transition for Toyota.

    PREFAB FRIDAY: Toyota Gets Into Prefab Housing | Inhabitat 2006

  • Africans affected by the disease but would include a target "for a reduced number of inceptions."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • They cite The Paris Review and Flair as well as early inceptions of The New Yorker as inspiration, although they agree that The New Yorker "has stopped addressing people like us, in the way that it once did."

    Reading Lips 2004

  • But in enterprises, pursuits, and purposes of life, there is much variety; whereof men are sensible with pleasure in their inceptions, progressions, recoils, reintegrations, approaches and attainings to their ends.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

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