conceptualize

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

Tuesday’s board meeting provided a first look at how administrators conceptualize the board’s directive, approved unanimously on April 21, to limit district-required screen time.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

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

“We’re not built to conceptualize it, but you just have to trust.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 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

Gay’s diary includes astute criticisms of how the public conceptualizes the wealth of famous writers and how “cultural ubiquity is not the same as actual money.”

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2018

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 Josephine G. Paterson

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

"For decades, the Toxoplasma life cycle was understood in overly simplistic terms, conceptualized as a linear transition between tachyzoite and bradyzoite stages," Wilson said.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 27, 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

Once extricated, the gem can be examined separately, conceptualized, defined, and insulated.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James

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

I have not read this book, but I think there's something to the idea of understanding where the opposition is coming from, how they are conceptualizing the problem.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 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

For in our view, for the process of nursing to be truly humanistic means that the nurse is involved as an experiencing, valuing, reflecting, conceptualizing human person.

From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson