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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
The extraordinary work that resulted from his labors, McNeal, which just completed its inaugural run in a Broadway production at Lincoln Center Theater, is a juggernaut—an intellectual, conceptual, and dramatic juggernaut.
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Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
Hillwood, a company connected to the Ross Perot family, presented conceptual plans to develop 10.35 million square feet of industrial style office, warehouse and light manufacturing space on about 1,380 acres near Linwood and Bluebird Roads just off Interstate 40 in eastern Wilson County.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
It’s called ring attention because GPUs are organized into a conceptual ring, with each GPU passing data to its neighbor.
—Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2024
While still in the conceptual stage, the Burl Treehouse holds great promise as an eco-tourism retreat or an innovative model for residential or commercial projects.
—New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2024
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Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
Hillwood, a company connected to the Ross Perot family, presented conceptual plans to develop 10.35 million square feet of industrial style office, warehouse and light manufacturing space on about 1,380 acres near Linwood and Bluebird Roads just off Interstate 40 in eastern Wilson County.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
It’s called ring attention because GPUs are organized into a conceptual ring, with each GPU passing data to its neighbor.
—Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2024
While still in the conceptual stage, the Burl Treehouse holds great promise as an eco-tourism retreat or an innovative model for residential or commercial projects.
—New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conceptual
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Unfortunately, Leibniz became all too fascinated by theoretical questions of dynamics, exasperating the miners.Anthony Gottlieb, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
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Each year, the Robot – a naïve stock-picking paradigm, generates a theoretical portfolio of ten very unpopular stocks.John Dorfman, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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There is a powerful sense of Johnson reaching for new and bolder challenges in his ongoing dialogues with reality and metaphysical thinking, material and idea.Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Although the machines’ inventor is concerned with metaphysical questions—do intelligent robots disprove God’s existence?—his engineer son sees the potential for major profit and manufactures robots for sale around the world, with disastrous results.Elvia Wilk, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
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The mood looks both delightful and a little melancholic — tiny, abstract people making their way in the biggest, loneliest of places.Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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Indeed, a persistent criticism is that their artistic approach evades urgent issues in favor of abstract or anodyne statements.Travis Diehl, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Conceptual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conceptual. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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