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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of preconceive.

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  • Could be, Huckabee, has what he thinks is a divine reflection, his own mediation with the truth of God as Huckabee preconceives it.

    Huckabee Directly Equates Homosexuality With Bestiality 2009

  • But this collective assumption raises two questions: 1. If TV audiences have come to accept that comedic shows without laugh tracks are edgier and more meaningful, is it not possible that the reverse would also be true in other words, does removing the laugh track change the way a viewer preconceives the show, regardless of its content?

    Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • But this collective assumption raises two questions: 1. If TV audiences have come to accept that comedic shows without laugh tracks are edgier and more meaningful, is it not possible that the reverse would also be true in other words, does removing the laugh track change the way a viewer preconceives the show, regardless of its content?

    “Ha ha,” he said. “Ha ha.” Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • But this collective assumption raises two questions: 1. If TV audiences have come to accept that comedic shows without laugh tracks are edgier and more meaningful, is it not possible that the reverse would also be true in other words, does removing the laugh track change the way a viewer preconceives the show, regardless of its content?

    “Ha ha,” he said. “Ha ha.” Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • But this collective assumption raises two questions: 1. If TV audiences have come to accept that comedic shows without laugh tracks are edgier and more meaningful, is it not possible that the reverse would also be true in other words, does removing the laugh track change the way a viewer preconceives the show, regardless of its content?

    “Ha ha,” he said. “Ha ha.” Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • But this collective assumption raises two questions: 1. If TV audiences have come to accept that comedic shows without laugh tracks are edgier and more meaningful, is it not possible that the reverse would also be true in other words, does removing the laugh track change the way a viewer preconceives the show, regardless of its content?

    “Ha ha,” he said. “Ha ha.” Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • Predestination is a preparation in this second sense, in which an agent is said to prepare himself mentally for action when he preconceives the idea of doing something.

    Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954

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