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dealing with or expressing a quality or idea
conceptual thinking is often the most demanding kind of mental activity
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Recent Examples of conceptual
The club has reached conceptual agreements to purchase the 58-acre railyard from the state, along with 25 acres on the south end of Denver Water’s campus to the west of the yard.
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Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2025
Even within the central nervous system, there was a conceptual hierarchy with the brain controlling the spinal cord.
—Sara Giordano, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025
Pettman’s book might best be read as comfort for the ghosted, providing a conceptual framework and a history of the idea.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
Project to project, the two endeavor to build conceptual through lines, referencing past successes without resting on repeats.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
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Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2025
Even within the central nervous system, there was a conceptual hierarchy with the brain controlling the spinal cord.
—Sara Giordano, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025
Pettman’s book might best be read as comfort for the ghosted, providing a conceptual framework and a history of the idea.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
Project to project, the two endeavor to build conceptual through lines, referencing past successes without resting on repeats.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conceptual
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And many additional ideas in theoretical physics seek to add in additional symmetries, additional dimensions, additional extra particles, or additional unification frameworks.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
9 Sep. 2025
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If not, these elements of Musk’s project are likely to remain more theoretical, just as the dreams of last century’s techno-utopians did.—
Sonja Fritzsche,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This time, Scott had a less metaphysical explanation for his torment.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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The materialist, physiological explanation for the phenomenon of panic generates a bright contrast with the philosophical and metaphysical inquiries that have Nicholas, and Clune, in their grip.—
Scott Stossel,
The Atlantic,
9 Sep. 2025
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Not abstract, delayed or generalized data, but precise, real-time and location-specific insights delivered from the world’s most remote forests, deepest watersheds and most polluted urban corridors.—
Michael De Nil,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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As anyone who’s ever had a two-year-old could tell you, kids that age don’t quite see things in such abstract terms.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Conceptual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conceptual. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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