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conceptualize

[kuhn-sep-choo-uh-lahyz] / kənˈsɛp tʃu əˌlaɪz /
VERB
form a concept
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He recalls walking into her office and seeing manuscript pages splayed across the floor as she played Tetris trying to conceptualize a book’s structure.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Teaming up with China’s prestigious Zhejiang University, Bosideng launched its own AI model to conceptualize designs and produce virtual garments.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 2025

Numbers this big can be hard to conceptualize, so Dow Jones Market Data sought to put some context around Nvidia’s next threshold.

From MarketWatch Oct. 29, 2025

While pursuing a graduate degree in London, rising filmmaker Nia DaCosta was unpacking complicated feelings of homesickness when she began to conceptualize the script for her directorial debut, “Little Woods.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 23, 2025

Thus historians who take language seriously need to search out the emergence of new languages, which must represent transformations in what people can think and how they can conceptualize their world.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

“He conceptualizes everything so well. He’s got this numbers thing going on in his head. Like, ‘You don’t have enough people over here to cover the receiver, so therefore, they’re probably doing something over here.’

From Washington Post Feb. 9, 2023

“He’s obviously beyond a monster, but the way he conceptualizes himself and the story he tells himself about his life …” she trails off.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2020

He questioned how the museum conceptualizes blockbuster exhibitions, and whether artists and community leaders are part of the initial conversations.

From New York Times Jun. 15, 2020

Note too the rather easy way he conceptualizes his children as a “superior force” that have descended to oppress him.

From Slate Jun. 3, 2014

In this reflective state the nurse analyzes, considers relationships between components, synthesizes themes or patterns, and then conceptualizes or symbolically interprets a sequential view of this past lived reality.

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.

In his 2004 book, “Affirmative Action Around the World,” economist Thomas Sowell highlighted the dangers of poorly conceptualized affirmative-action policies in India and other countries.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

It was there, on a whiteboard in her kitchen, that he conceptualized this modern, diverse digital media company, he said.

From Slate Dec. 12, 2024

The plan, at least how it was conceptualized, was for the Lakers to come to Phoenix on Thursday night and go through an exercise that mimicked a regular-season game.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 18, 2024

"For our devices, we conceptualized and designed a nonacene-like molecule with a unique architecture," said co-lead author Preeta Pratakshya, who recently received her Ph.D. in UCI's Department of Chemistry.

From Science Daily Jan. 4, 2024

The third term or phrase, "all-at-once," arose intuitively within me as a construct in 1969 and was partially conceptualized.

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.

In a promotional video, the company showed examples like adding a friend into a band photo or conceptualizing furniture for a garage.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

It is easy to deprecate the single phrase inscribed atop the entrance to our courthouse by conceptualizing it as a mere platitude.

From Slate Jun. 20, 2025

For Muehl, it’s all about conceptualizing and painstakingly trying to get the dishes “show ready.”

From Seattle Times May 16, 2024

As such, Lanning and his research team introduced a novel approach to conceptualizing person-community fit, predicated on the idea that communities, like persons, are diverse, and can include multiple environmental niches.

From Science Daily Feb. 7, 2024

In conceptualizing this construct I teased out of my lived-nursing-world the "how" of my working toward my own and others' comfort.

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.




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