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conceptual

[kuhn-sep-choo-uhl] / kənˈsɛp tʃu əl /
ADJECTIVE
abstract
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STRONGEST


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It’s not an album like the Who’s “Tommy” — an actual musical that takes the conceptual deal to another level.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

In addition, the museum’s curators tended to be specialized in material culture — collecting and studying the museum’s several million objects and artifacts — rather than in conceptual storytelling.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Elsewhere, “Sightlines” wanders into conceptual territory and particularly shaky ground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Interpretations mainly offer different conceptual explanations for what quantum theory means, while typically producing the same experimental predictions as standard quantum mechanics.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

People accustomed to keeping domesticated animals lacked the conceptual tools to recognize that the Indians were practicing a more distant kind of husbandry of their own.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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