concept
Example Sentences
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Experts say these feelings are coinciding with the advent of the internet, digital media and this concept of 24/7 access.
From Los Angeles Times
For regular people, “having to pay an extra fee to handle the unrecyclable plastic packaging that is thrust upon us every day is antithetical to every concept of producer responsibility.”
From Los Angeles Times
She pushes for land co-ownership between men and women, a rare concept in Iran, and takes up causes like girls' education and child marriage.
From BBC
By contrast, the phrase "cat and dog" is instantly understandable because both animals are familiar concepts.
From Science Daily
The concept of being picky was born, though it was still so new a word that food marketers put it in quotation marks.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.