How to Use conceptual in a Sentence

conceptual

adjective
  • The plans have both conceptual and practical difficulties.
  • 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
  • And being able to do it in clothes that are so carefully thought out and made and so explorative and more conceptual is very cool.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 6 May 2024
  • John had directed both Rocky and The Karate Kid, so that lent itself to this writer's conceptual idea.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The fact that the album has three parts and is so conceptual is precisely to defend the idea of protest and celebration.
    Billboard Argentina, Billboard, 16 May 2022
  • Three teams have done conceptual work on projects to replenish sand on the beaches and keep it there longer, according to KPBS.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
  • This project will restore the Wetlands Reserve in South Oceanside to native plant habitat; the open house will share the project’s conceptual plan.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Still, the agreement is just conceptual and hasn’t been drafted into text.
    Lindsay Wise, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • Coming up, she's got a role in the second season of the hit conceptual thriller Severance (2024).
    Danny Horn, EW.com, 14 July 2024
  • Lily Hay Newman: There are a few basic or conceptual things here.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Decide on three to five conceptual themes, but still no wordsmithing.
    Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • Paris, which ran Oct. 16 to Sunday and where there was also no shortage of conceptual design curations and icons new and old.
    Sofia Celeste, WWD, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Metzger made drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, and conceptual works that explored the edge of new and emerging technology.
    Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024

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