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conceptual

[kuhn-sep-choo-uhl] / kənˈsɛp tʃu əl /
ADJECTIVE
abstract
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Sharabi — who is Yemeni American and lives between Egypt and Virginia — created large-scale, conceptual self-portraits that she manipulated in the printing process.

From Los Angeles Times

Showing that the Kondo effect can operate in opposite ways depending on spin size offers a new perspective on quantum matter and establishes a fresh conceptual foundation for designing spin-based quantum devices.

From Science Daily

The Globe specified that the model being developed "was a conceptual and theoretical framework, not a military plan, which is an actionable and step‑by‑step directive for executing operations."

From Barron's

They point to both methodological and conceptual weaknesses in the study design and say the discrepancy can be explained by a well-known cognitive bias called the subadditivity effect.

From Science Daily

As Mr. Thaler reports, “despite the empirical robustness and conceptual importance of these findings, insights from behavioral economics remain largely absent from mainstream economics textbooks.”

From The Wall Street Journal