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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
Like many immigrants, Kuang had maintained a largely conceptual relationship to her native country as a child, slowly losing her grasp of Mandarin.
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Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Our last record [2021’s Day/Night] was very conceptual, very deep, very internal and very of the time during COVID.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2025
Sometimes this connection is conceptual, as if the artist desires to plug in to humanity itself.
—Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
Among her supporters was Gracie Hunt — the daughter of Chiefs Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt and his wife, Tavia Hunt — who reposted a picture from Swift's conceptual photoshoot for the album.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Our last record [2021’s Day/Night] was very conceptual, very deep, very internal and very of the time during COVID.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2025
Sometimes this connection is conceptual, as if the artist desires to plug in to humanity itself.
—Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
Among her supporters was Gracie Hunt — the daughter of Chiefs Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt and his wife, Tavia Hunt — who reposted a picture from Swift's conceptual photoshoot for the album.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conceptual
Adjective
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This novel scenario, of flash ionization in the early Universe, may turn out to be, like most new theoretical ideas, a red herring that only takes us to a possible world that never was.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
2 Sep. 2025
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The key is making the financial management real rather than theoretical.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Vendors will offer beads, minerals, gemstones, custom jewelry, fossils, artifacts, and metaphysical stones.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 Aug. 2025
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The surrounding wave paintings add emotional turbulence, invoking both the physical might and metaphysical vastness of the sea.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Domains require direct modeling of physical states instead of abstract prediction methods.—
Sadhasivam Mohanadas,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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These aren’t abstract concepts.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Conceptual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conceptual. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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