How to Use conceptual in a Sentence
conceptual
adjective- The plans have both conceptual and practical difficulties.
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But those conceptual plans are to be formed with community input.
— Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2022 -
Victories would have been grand, but Suter’s explicit goal was more conceptual.
— David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2022 -
Yet the clothes were less conceptual and more grounded in the visual trademarks established by Abloh in the decade since founding his company.
— Nick Remsen, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022 -
Weaving art and fashion, the shows have been highlighting the work of female artists through conceptual installations and moving images.
— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024 -
The explosion was filmed by a conceptual artist known as Shl0ms as an independent work of art dubbed $CAR.
— Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2022 -
Taken as one, the shows would’ve constituted the celebrated conceptual artist’s first exhibition in Lebanon in seven years.
— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 10 Oct. 2024 -
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 -
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 -
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
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