conceptualize
verb
con·cep·tu·al·ize
kən-ˈsep-chə-wə-ˌlīz 
-chü-ə-,
-chə-ˌlīz,
-shwə-ˌlīz
conceptualized; conceptualizing
: to form a concept of
conceptualize a new car design
especially
: to interpret conceptually
conceptualizing reality
Examples of conceptualize in a Sentence
She described her plans to me, but I found them hard to conceptualize.
He conceptualizes the family as an economic unit.
A programmer needs to analyze and conceptualize in order to solve problems.
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An article from The Star in 2017 said the two began conceptualizing the store in 2015 after noticing men were being shortchanged in the retail industry.
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Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 30 Dec. 2025
Trying to wrap one’s mind around the scale of civic destruction wrought in just 11 months stretches the limits of the imagination, like conceptualizing light-years or black holes.
—Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
The one-of-a-kind activation was conceptualized and executed by Chalamet, Marty Supreme’s distributor A24 Films, and Sphere Studios.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Dec. 2025
Another crucial shift in people’s conception of literature came from twentieth-century Africa, Asia, and South America, where post-colonial thinkers conceptualized literature very differently—and more politically—than the individualistic European and American mind-set did.
—Vauhini Vara, New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2025
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Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 30 Dec. 2025
Trying to wrap one’s mind around the scale of civic destruction wrought in just 11 months stretches the limits of the imagination, like conceptualizing light-years or black holes.
—Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
The one-of-a-kind activation was conceptualized and executed by Chalamet, Marty Supreme’s distributor A24 Films, and Sphere Studios.
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Dec. 2025
Another crucial shift in people’s conception of literature came from twentieth-century Africa, Asia, and South America, where post-colonial thinkers conceptualized literature very differently—and more politically—than the individualistic European and American mind-set did.
—Vauhini Vara, New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2025
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“Conceptualize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conceptualize. Accessed 5 Jan. 2026.
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