conceptualize
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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
“It’s hard to conceptualize the fact that you can throw — put the ball in the end zone that much,” said Rams receiver Davante Adams, who has 12 touchdown receptions this season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 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
Shafir likes to use the image of a suitcase to help people conceptualize their budget.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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
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“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
Faris says that he conceptualizes fighting dirty in a more high-minded way.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2019
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
This meant that I had two conceptualized presentations of similar type personal experiences in nursing consultation to compare and contrast.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson
He was as good at capturing attention as conceptualizing a roster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 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
People have different ways of conceptualizing the world and how people should live in it.”
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2024
The following quote is offered to support and validate the efforts put into conceptualizing this method.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson