How to Use preconception in a Sentence

preconception

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Those who haven’t seen ballet before can have fairly rigid preconceptions of it as prissy or elitist or hard to understand.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• But as Pratt shows, at least some of the failure to see powerful women in the region is in the eye of the beholder: Western preconceptions often make women invisible.
  — Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024