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Recent Examples of conceptual What conservatives have done, in the current moment, is borrow the progressives’ conceptual apparatus. Lula Konner, The New York Review of Books, 4 Oct. 2025 Emphasizing the project’s conceptual basis, one particularly ephemeral edition, The Biggest Nemyrivskiy Art Center, 2013, was a roughly nineteen-thousand-square-foot rectangle outlined on a snowy field by a plow, disappearing as soon as the snow began to melt. Joanna Warsza, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025 And the late conceptual artist, Chris Burden, and still-active light and space artist James Turrell have ties to the school as students and instructors. Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025 In the 1960s and ’70s, Alexander Grothendieck and his successors developed novel conceptual tools that helped resolve Hilbert’s problem and set the foundation for the field of modern algebraic geometry. Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for conceptual
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Adjective
  • Doorman highlights more recent scholarship that argues that this is an oversimplification of what were larger theoretical differences between the movement’s two founders.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The York study is theoretical, rather than observation-based.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Her poetry carries it all—the metaphysical, the flirtatious, the unsettling, the provocative— all in such miniscule space.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Yoga and sound baths set the tone, but the property also offers a roster of metaphysical experiences for those curious for something more.
    Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Now, the company has launched Wings—a collection of mostly fine jewelry that’s less literal and more abstract.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2025
  • One look was a pair of loose-fitting ivory denim jeans with double zippers in front and an abstract expressionist design splattered all over.
    Footwear News, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Conceptual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conceptual. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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