conceptual
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Deciding to purchase a CD is just a conceptual first step, because CDs need to be shopped.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
The organisation says this is because it has a different methodology and asks more direct questions than most other polls, which it says are more conceptual in nature.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
This is the best-case scenario, because the problem pushes us in new conceptual directions that often have value far beyond the original problem—and sometimes beyond mathematics itself.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
The conceptual artist is renowned for transforming words into eerie pronouncements, and here she scours the FBI’s files on the civil-rights movement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
The transmission of hereditary traits was just one instance of information flow—but if you looked deeply, squinting your conceptual lenses, it was easy to imagine information moving pervasively through the entire living world.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing conceptual
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