How To Use Preconceived In A Sentence
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You must judge each film on its own merits, without any preconceived notions about what it's like.
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He had a preconceived notion of what a messiah should be like.
Christianity Today
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It's been my experience that life is so constructed that the event cannot and will not live up to preconceived idea I have about it.
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They have the effect of jarring your preconceived notions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Preconceived notions are prejudices about what is supposed to happen during the ritual, or the way in which the ritual must be done.
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They abound in matters of interest to the investigator of masonic symbolism and philosophy, but should be read with a careful view of the preconceived theory of the learned author, who refers everything in the ancient religions to the influences of the Noachic cataclysm, and the arkite worship which he supposes to have resulted from it.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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We all fear the unknown and we all have preconceived ideas of what other places are like.
Times, Sunday Times
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And still she would not be ill to fall in with Louis's preconceived notions; living an absolutely normal, rather tough life, hardened by her father's Spartanism, she found that a natural process made very little difference to her.
Captivity
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So I went to college, with that kind of preconceived notion which didn't materialize.
Oral History Interview with Eva Clayton, July 18, 1989. Interview C-0084. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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I didn't have any kind of preconceived notions about how these things were supposed to be done.
Undefined
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`The most surprising thing about the group is that many of my preconceived notions about the participants have been overturned.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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The work of Crowell, Dott and Winterer led to the introduction of purely descriptive terms for poorly sorted and laminated facies that avoided any preconceived notion of a glacial origin.
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Some prejudices (preconceived opinions of an individual based on opinions about the many) have names such as racism, sexism, or ageism.
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You do not win games with preconceived ideas.
Times, Sunday Times
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We must be prepared for all possibilities, not just the ones that play into reporters' preconceived notions about hunters, soldiers, tattoos and guns.
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He questions authority and is skeptical of preconceived ideas, offering in their place an objective insight.
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The word homeschooling is such a misnomer, because most of the learning does not happen anywhere near home, and school is such a loaded word that brings so many preconceived notions about learning to mind that it's really no wonder that people don't "get it.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Sorry for the outburst...
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Prerequisites are a willingness to experiment, a desire to play, and a hankering to shake up preconceived notions about your art and photography.
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Do you think that kind of preconceived notion of how a female rock musician should behave harms the progress of female musicians in general?
PopMatters
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I had no preconceived idea of how much interest it would attract.
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The hope is that face-to-face contact on this special day will help to blow away any preconceived ideas.
The Sun
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The distribution of life in the rivers and lakes of Brazil, the immense number of species and their local circumscription, as distinct faunae in definite areas of the same water-basin, amazed him; while the character of the soil and other geological features confirmed him in his preconceived belief that the glacial period could not have been less than cosmic in its influence.
Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence
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This rough, urban setting clashes with our preconceived notions about her adorable subject matter.
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We started from scratch with no preconceived ideas.
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It was at Halle, too, that Gundling, in 1711, discussed "the office of a university" and laid down the modern university theory of _Lehrfreiheit und Lernfreiheit_ -- that is, freedom from outside interference in teaching and studying, both teachers and students to be free to follow the truth wherever the truth might lead, and without reference to what preconceived theories might be upset thereby.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
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This encounter supported my preconceived notion that teeth whitening is not quite right.
Times, Sunday Times
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It overrides all conception, all preconceived ideas of what you think you want or need.
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That insight alone has blown away some of my preconceived ideas.
Times, Sunday Times
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It cannot be denied that our "think so's," "feel so's," impressions, prejudices and inherited or preconceived ideas may seem as infallible to us as any so-called axiomatic or intuitive truths.
To Infidelity and Back
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I was not about to confront her preconceived notions head-on.
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A singer, a percussionist, a bass player, a pianist and some insanely talented tap dancers collaborate in this fresh, fun experiment that will challenge your preconceived ideas about tap.
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certain preconceived notions
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Any preconceived notion that Britain would be the outright winner was tested to the limit.
Times, Sunday Times
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This encounter supported my preconceived notion that teeth whitening is not quite right.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have the effect of jarring your preconceived notions.
Times, Sunday Times
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By using balloons, all preconceived notions of what art is can be thrown out the window.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have the effect of jarring your preconceived notions.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Mars missions show the power of preconceived ideas to cloud our thinking.
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I did not have any preconceived idea of what fame was about or how much interest our relationship would attract.
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People have preconceived ideas about what can and cannot be meaningful, which really need to be challenged.
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Any preconceived notion that Britain would be the outright winner was tested to the limit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Did you go there with kind of preconceived notions of what Yemen might be?
CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2010
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Yet there was something of majesty, depressed indeed and overclouded, but still grand and imposing, in the manner and words of Father Buonaventure, which it was difficult to reconcile with those preconceived opinions which imputed subtlety and fraud to his sect and order.
Redgauntlet
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We learnt to be careful about our preconceived ideas misleading us, not making us critical enough.
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He questions authority and is skeptical of preconceived ideas, offering in their place an objective insight.
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Preconceived idea again uppermost, he took literally many of her sallies and allusions to her husband, which were purposely Brobdignagian in their dimensions.
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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In a lesser writer such use of anecdote could give way to whimsy, presenting quirky characters as allegory, tailoring encounters to fit a preconceived moral philosophy.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had a preconceived notion of what a messiah should be like.
Christianity Today
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You may have a preconceived notion about Self-Help, but if you look closely I think you'll find it is an inaccurate stereotype.
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On the future of banking in Ireland he has ‘no preconceived ideas of what is right and what is wrong’.
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This is in spite of your preconceived notions.
The Sun
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She had no preconceived ideas about what she was playing - it just happened.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was good she didn't have preconceived ideas about me.
The Sun
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Otherwise, the report may simply reinforce your preconceived ideas about a stock.
AHEAD OF THE MARKET
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I don't think either one of us comes to the set, or to rehearsals, with preconceived notions of how the scene is going to be.
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Many have preconceived notions of a soldier's job as physical and macho.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was good for our preconceived notions of interpretation to be challenged, but occasionally what seemed strange pull-ups and allargandos, might have been considered perverse.
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Instead, we must be vigilant in guarding against the distasteful practice of having unfavourable preconceived notions against individuals based on their origin.
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You must judge each film on its own merits, without any preconceived notions about what it's like.
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He won, convincing a jury that the magazine's two top editors (one of whom was the magazine's publisher and sole stockholder) had a clear "preconceived" and "predetermined" agenda to present him as verifiably paranoid and mentally ill.
The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News
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This encounter supported my preconceived notion that teeth whitening is not quite right.
Times, Sunday Times
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You have all these preconceived ideas, but it is not what you think.
Times, Sunday Times
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Composition_ he described how his best-known poem, the _Raven_, was systematically built up on a preconceived plan in which the number of lines was first determined and the word "nevermore" selected as a starting-point.
Initial Studies in American Letters
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Set aside your preconceived notions about healthy food: The restaurant's well-rounded sides and dressings add serious luster to the menu with items such as organic quinoa and couscous, mixed nuts, sunflower seeds, spicy aioli, malt aioli, veganaise, and homemade house dressings such as ginger-tamari, creamy garlic, mango (oil free) and bleu cheese.
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Without a public forum for this investigation ... the public will distrust it as some kind of preconceived plan by the regulator and the company he is supposed to be overseeing.
Consumer Watchdog Updates
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We're each wrapped in a fabric of prejudices, preconceived ideas and moral values.
Times, Sunday Times
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Would they consider preconceived biases having influenced their conjectures?
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Many have preconceived notions of a soldier's job as physical and macho.
Times, Sunday Times
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More generally, she was able to demolish a few of her own - and other people's - preconceived ideas.
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People have preconceived ideas about it and are snobby.
The Sun
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It may be time to set aside any preconceived notions about these coeds and start thinking of them as serious consumers.
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They can have preconceived ideas that they will be less able to do their jobs.
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They startled contemporaries by their radicalism, and their conduct gives the lie to our preconceived idea that a townsman is a man of peace.
Medieval Europe
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Unfortunately the investigations undertaken for this end have for a long time been fruitless, for the preconceived paludal theory has led investigators to occupy themselves exclusively with the inferior organisms inhabiting marshes.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
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Figures are often quoted to buttress preconceived and personal agendas.
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Abandoning the preconceived notions of tonality, and immersed within a musical state of dissonance, Coltrane's music became a communicative attempt at reaching a higher plane.
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This is in spite of your preconceived notions.
The Sun
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That insight alone has blown away some of my preconceived ideas.
Times, Sunday Times
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In his _Philosophy of Composition_ he described how his best known poem, the _Raven_, was systematically built up on a preconceived plan in which the number of lines was first determined and the word "nevermore" selected as a starting point.
Brief History of English and American Literature
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Some prejudices (preconceived opinions of an individual based on opinions about the many) have names such as racism, sexism, or ageism.
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The Landscaper creates an ecosystem that matches a preconceived design or pattern.
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You have all these preconceived ideas, but it is not what you think.
Times, Sunday Times
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Besides that, the effect for which the high fantasist is reaching is largely a subjective one gauged by the reader’s disposition, preconceived notions, and attitude at the time of reading.
Archive 2007-05-01
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But researchers think he may have had preconceived ideas about what the data should show.
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If we are to truly assess what is going on in the world it is necessary to put our prejudices and preconceived notions aside.
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I really had no preconceived ideas about what the experience would be like.
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Rather than impose preconceived plans on a venerable company with a distinct culture, he's going to listen first.
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What was he just saying about having no preconceived ideas about how to do things?
Times, Sunday Times
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Whenever you look at others, you shouldn't have preconceived ideas.
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They should not want me to reduce the text to two paragraphs that will fit their preconceived ideas.
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The reason why men are so short and weak in governing is, because most things fall out to them accidentally, and come not into any compliance with their preconceived ends, but they are forced to comply subsequently, and to strike in with things as they fall out, by postliminious after-applications of them to their purposes, or by framing their purposes to them.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
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Because that would validate all my preconceived notions of innate North European linguistic ability - and our knack at attracting patronising anglophonic morons.
Can You Top This
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I think a lot of people have a very preconceived idea about who I am, which is fair enough because that's the nature of media.
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They state that the australopithecine material has been poorly interpreted because of preconceived notions, and that australopithecine bipedality may have been quite different from and unrelated to human bipedality.
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This is in spite of your preconceived notions.
The Sun
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Challenging preconceived ideas saying goodbye to long standing fears.
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Prejudice A prejudice is a preconceived belief about an individual or a group that is not subject to change on the basis of new evidence.
Sociology
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Of the influence of a point of view even remotely akin to the priestly position that worship in this or that special place is of more value than anywhere else, and on that account alone deserves to be preserved, no trace is to be found in them; their polemic is a purely prophetic one, i.e., individual, "theopneust" in the sense that it is independent of all traditional and preconceived human opinions.
Prolegomena
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He'll think of something so he can appoint people who don't have any preconceived notions about Hoffman's original intent.
BETTER THAN THIS
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Tourists forget their preconceived ideas as soon as they visit our country.
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It was good she didn't have preconceived ideas about me.
The Sun
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As well as helping us to get through life, preconceived ideas about the world can lead us astray.
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He'll think of something so he can appoint people who don't have any preconceived notions about Hoffman's original intent.
BETTER THAN THIS
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By using balloons, all preconceived notions of what art is can be thrown out the window.
Times, Sunday Times
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The innate tendency to aberration which I have noted in Froude, and his admittedly treacherous memory, were the primary causes of his impeachment of Carlyle; and tracing these in operation, it becomes clear that they landed him in a preconceived notion of Carlyle's relations with his wife, which was radically wrong, but to which, in spite of correction, he persistently adhered.
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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The best discussions happen when you can improvise somewhat, working with whatever the students say -- no matter what they come up with -- to help them learn the material you need to cover (rather than forcing them to follow some kind of preconceived Q&A "script").
CHE > Latest news
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He makes me laugh without challenging any of my preconceived ideas.
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`You say that because it fits your preconceived notion of what American food is.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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Typical preconceived notion of a modern "westerner".
In Lithuania, Pre-Lent Carnival Has Anti-Jewish Overtones
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They were both meant to challenge preconceived notions, which they certainly did.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another point of view may help to clarify thinking and offset preconceived notions or prejudices.
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We're each wrapped in a fabric of prejudices, preconceived ideas and moral values.
Times, Sunday Times
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Obviously Gary had never read a romance book in his life, but his preconceived ideas did provide entertainment for the rest of us.
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We all fear the unknown and we all have preconceived ideas of what other places are like.
Times, Sunday Times
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People have preconceived ideas about it and are snobby.
The Sun
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It's a handy spelling rule to know and deploy when using words such as "preconceived," for however little that is worth.
Does the new Dakota Fanning movie violate the federal child pornography law?
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The hope is that face-to-face contact on this special day will help to blow away any preconceived ideas.
The Sun
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Otherwise, the report may simply reinforce your preconceived ideas about a stock.
AHEAD OF THE MARKET
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Most people have preconceived ideas of what these people look like, but they often appear to be the epitome of family decency.
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You do not win games with preconceived ideas.
Times, Sunday Times
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In order to support preconceived ideas and policies many subjective and false assumptions are made.
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On one hand a mirror can be a powerful revealer of truth - reflecting back an image unbiased by preconceived notions of appearance.
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It is the evidence that determines all this, not any preconceived opinion or ideological view.
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They were both meant to challenge preconceived notions, which they certainly did.
Times, Sunday Times
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What was he just saying about having no preconceived ideas about how to do things?
Times, Sunday Times
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Evidently it was no less difficult for him to readjust his preconceived conclusions than it is for most human beings; but finally the idea percolated -- which it might never have done had he been a man, or I might qualify that statement by saying had he been some men.
Pellucidar
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They must have formed preconceived ideas about the former world heavyweight champion.
The Sun
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They both deal with things in a rational fashion, uncluttered by prejudice or preconceived views.
Times, Sunday Times
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a preconceived notion
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Out of denial, because the information that was reaching him was being massaged for positive effect, or simply because the notion conformed to preconceived ideas nurtured in isolation in the decades before the war, Stalin now assumed that these offensives would reverse the fortunes of his dwindling forces.
Deathride
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We all fear the unknown and we all have preconceived ideas of what other places are like.
Times, Sunday Times
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Syal said that the film was not gimmicky and most importantly people were not slotted into preconceived roles.
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Prejudice A prejudice is a preconceived belief about an individual or a group that is not subject to change on the basis of new evidence.
Sociology
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She had no preconceived ideas about what she was playing - it just happened.
Times, Sunday Times
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The crucial point of the puzzle lies in the reality that we rely too much nowadays on the mass media, which is full of reports in favour of preconceived ideas agreeable to a certain audience.
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They have the effect of jarring your preconceived notions.
Times, Sunday Times
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According to the popular director and it might even be better to not have too many preconceived ideas about the period.
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The reader must judge from this account, written by some one who approached his subject with no preconceived ideas either way.
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They both deal with things in a rational fashion, uncluttered by prejudice or preconceived views.
Times, Sunday Times