How to Use conceptualize in a Sentence

conceptualize

verb
  • She described her plans to me, but I found them hard to conceptualize.
  • A programmer needs to analyze and conceptualize in order to solve problems.
  • He conceptualizes the family as an economic unit.
  • Cagan says the show was conceptualized in May, written in two months, and then shot over just six days.
    WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The new gym and pool complex took five years to conceptualize and construct.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Aug. 2021
  • The term was coined by Ward Cunningham as a way to conceptualize this idea.
    Michael Engstler, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • How does one conceptualize hair and makeup for a show of this caliber?
    Shalwah Evans, Essence, 25 Sep. 2019
  • When was that conceptualized, and did recasting the role with Max Charles in the second season have anything to do with it?
    Amber Dowling, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Caliente spent two days within arm’s reach of the Porsche to conceptualize the design before embarking on the two-week paint job.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 May 2021
  • Nowhere is this difference more visible than in the way that Qur’anic schools—and the men who function in them—are conceptualized.
    Hadiza Kere Abdulrahman, Quartz Africa, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Even though the great work of SAP has set the corporate tone; there is still a broader approach that is needed to conceptualize change.
    Jonathan Kaufman, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Cleveland has five picks in the first two rounds, and $100 million in cap space (Sashi Brown’s parting gift to John Dorsey), but going through this helped me conceptualize it.
    Albert Breer, SI.com, 27 Dec. 2017
  • The longer-term perspective, though, is hard for many to conceptualize.
    Martin Leo Rivers, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • Some can't even conceptualize the notion of a single death.
    Robyn Silverman, CNN, 30 June 2020
  • In the government, a lot of people have done some good work on conceptualizing the problem.
    WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
  • As the era of too-much-TV lumbers on, the mystery of how to conceptualize television as a format remains.
    The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The Dove Awards were conceptualized by singer-songwriter Bill Gaither in 1968.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 29 Dec. 2023
  • In school, he was taught about being able to cook and conceptualize culinary concepts.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • In this case, boys seem to be conceptualizing their aura as a deep presence and self-awareness.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 26 July 2024
  • None of the costumes are rented, so every piece on stage is conceptualized by Costumer Barb Szaro.
    Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 Aug. 2019
  • For laymen, that kind of data may feel hard to conceptualize, or plainly scary.
    The Indianapolis Star, 27 July 2023
  • In fact, the most inspired work often blooms from the minds of young up-and-comers who are conceptualizing and producing 100 percent on their own terms.
    Reese Blutstein, Teen Vogue, 22 May 2018
  • Goldman also had to conceptualize how to show the type of action scenes that are usually ubiquitous in the heist genre.
    Rosa Escandon, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • What was your vision for the project and what went into conceptualizing that sonic and visual world?
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 7 May 2024
  • But the horror of what we have been expected to live through, and what we are now expected to leave behind, seems too enormous to conceptualize.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Though there’s much debate as to who conceptualized and patented their dive watch first, there’s no doubt that the need for such a bezel for the French navy impacted the design of one of the world’s most important timepieces.
    Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 13 June 2024
  • Kenny Gravillis joins the team for the first time to conceptualize the key art for this year’s Oscars marketing campaign.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Though many projects have been conceptualized, only a few have been realized so far.
    Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 12 Sep. 2017
  • This, in turn, yields insights that are of lesser depth and breadth which may result in ideas that are conceptualized at a higher level of abstraction.
    Tomoko Yokoi, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The Overton window is the notion that certain things can be conceptualized as politically feasible, if unlikely, while things outside the window are just impossible.
    Brady Dale, Axios, 7 Aug. 2024

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