How to Use conceptual in a Sentence

conceptual

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  • The plans have both conceptual and practical difficulties.
  • Move over New York designers and LA conceptual artists.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Unfortunately that kick is more conceptual than anything else.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • On a more conceptual level, the hobo silhouette is suggestive of freedom and travel, which are core Chloé values.
    — Vogue, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The early, conceptual design calls for a porous and transparent arena with hangar-style doors that open up to a broader entertainment district.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2021
  • That is a sign that England’s current elite, perhaps, occupy rather too much conceptual space in soccer’s never-ending discourse.
    — New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • This commercial appeal, combined with a strong conceptual vision, showed a deep understanding of the modern consumer.
    — Ritu Upadhyay, WWD, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Hints of a possible Slipknot concept record have surfaced throughout recent years, and their last record even had elements of a conceptual binding.
    — Quentin Singer, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • That has given more Americans not only a language for talking about this threat but a conceptual framework for better understanding it.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Yet the shift from authoritarian or imperial rule to democracy also depends upon a leap of conceptual faith.
    — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • This can allow the creative team to spend more time on the conceptual aspects of their work.
    — Nick Leighton, Forbes, 16 Oct. 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
  • The project is conceptual now and will move into the planning and designing stage next.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 20 Jan. 2022
  • While most of the car is conceptual, BMW said some features will start arriving in 2025.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 5 Jan. 2023
  • An initial hearing on the conceptual plans will take place on May 4.
    — Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2022
  • The process is more conceptual than a precise science, Burke says.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Project specifics are still conceptual at this point, and a rezone doesn’t mean the city approves of all elements.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 May 2022
  • At the May 10 meeting, Ogden will seek support for the conceptual plan.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2022
  • 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
  • Arkani-Hamed and his collaborators aspire to bring about a conceptual revolution of the sort that rocked physics in the late 1700s.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Nichols approaches the material with a light touch but doesn’t undercut the conceptual tragedy.
    — EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024

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