How to Use conceptual in a Sentence

conceptual

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  • The plans have both conceptual and practical difficulties.
  • After a lengthy review process, the final conceptual designs are now set.
    — Xander Peters, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
  • Crouch has scrupulously tried to patch over the conceptual holes and anticipate your objections.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
  • The conceptual plans show upward of 30 acres being made available for public space or development.
    — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2024
  • Ruscha produces photographs governed by a hard-core conceptual procedure.
    — Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
  • Feynman’s talk established the conceptual foundations for manipulating matter at the nanoscale—the scale of atoms.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 13 June 2024
  • The Cave is serious about their conceptual drinks and offers the most cutting-edge cocktail program in a town with seriously great mixology.
    — Felicia Campbell, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2024
  • In adults, taking notes by hand during a lecture, instead of typing, can lead to better conceptual understanding of material.
    — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 11 May 2024
  • And many of the projects are still in the conceptual phase and have not even begun to be built.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2023
  • But a glowing plant might be the set of conceptual training wheels that eases the way there.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
  • In the art world, the conceptual move that rebrands supposed trash as art isn’t quite so simple.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
  • But his conceptual skill isn’t matched by his writing of scenes.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Yosef is a painter and conceptual artist who has won multiple awards for his work.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 6 July 2023
  • But in conceptual and tonal terms, the two are very similar.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
  • While most of the car is conceptual, BMW said some features will start arriving in 2025.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 5 Jan. 2023
  • At the time, painting was allegedly dead (one of its all-too-regular deaths) and the focus was on the conceptual.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • That was not so much a creative failure on our parts but a conceptual failure.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Frankopan skips right past the shift that arguably defined the modern era, and that provides much of his own conceptual framework.
    — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • Her, conceptual pieces by Cedric Mizero, and much more.
    — Helen Jennings, Vogue, 21 June 2023
  • How much of your music is considered in this sort of conceptual way?
    — Ryan Reed, SPIN, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Three teams have done conceptual work on projects to replenish sand on the beaches and keep it there longer, according to KPBS.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
  • This project will restore the Wetlands Reserve in South Oceanside to native plant habitat; the open house will share the project’s conceptual plan.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Lily Hay Newman: There are a few basic or conceptual things here.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Decide on three to five conceptual themes, but still no wordsmithing.
    — Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • In so many of Nolan’s movies, there’s often a conceptual element that finds its way into the music.
    — Vulture, 27 July 2023
  • Some have complained about the conceptual nature of the monument.
    — Adrienne L. Childs, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Conceptually, in a way, that added to the strangeness of the conceptual album.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Sciria said the mixed-use buildings under DiGeronimo’s conceptual plan were too close to the street.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
  • If the late Joe Strummer was the poetic heart of the band, Simonon was the conceptual engine, equal parts switchblade danger and gangster cool.
    — Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 7 June 2023
  • Angeline’s boyfriend, Maurice, who more or less lived with us, was a conceptual artist.
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023

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