preconceived idea

collocation in English

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preconceived
adjective
uk
/ˌpriː.kənˈsiːvd/us
/ˌpriː.kənˈsiːvd/
(of an idea or an opinion) formed too early, especially without enough thought ...
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idea
noun
uk
/aɪˈdɪə/us
/aɪˈdiː.ə/
a suggestion or plan for ...
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(Definition ofpreconceivedandideafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpreconceived idea

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Most of these hunters and travellers too, believed that fly depended upon game, especially upon buffalo, and they tried to make everything they saw fit in with thispreconceivedidea.
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I have nopreconceivedideaof the type of intervention that will be needed, legislative or otherwise.
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I do not start with anypreconceivedideaagainst co-partnership at all.
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Besides reflecting us, television also tends to build up apreconceivedideaof what we want to watch.
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We do not have a fixed,preconceivedideaof who gets what.
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I have gone to an independent source for my figures without anypreconceivedideaof what they would produce.
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It is easy to have apreconceivedideaof why accidents happen in playgrounds.
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What is more, of course, he said that we are not bound by any dogma orpreconceivedidea.
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These things are not immutable and it would be foolish for us to stick rigidly to anypreconceivedideain matters of this kind.
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Many critics have started from apreconceivedideaof what a block grant is.
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We do not have apreconceivedideaof what the course fee is likely to be.
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We shall not allow ourselves to be fettered by any dogma orpreconceivedidea.
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Will he have his ownpreconceivedideaabout what is and what is not hardship?
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I may say, at any rate, that we began with nopreconceivedidea.
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It may prove to be different—there is nopreconceivedideaabout the pattern of decisions—but that will emerge only from a detailed consideration of each case.
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It would be hopeless if we were to attempt to make the great technical advances which may come fit in to anypreconceivedideaof strategy.
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The names attached to the pictures were generally suggested by the completed work, and rarely represented anypreconceivedideain the artist's mind.
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Musically, the band wrote whatever came naturally to them without anypreconceivedideaof how they wanted it to turn out.
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She uses no source material and begins with nopreconceivedideaof the final result.
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Systematic reviews represent the conscious attempt to analyse all the available data without preconceived ideas.
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