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conceptualize

[kuhn-sep-choo-uh-lahyz] / kənˈsɛp tʃu əˌlaɪz /
VERB
form a concept
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Its roots are in imagination, which means there are plenty of additional narratives to conceptualize.

From Salon Jun. 6, 2026

Americans had to conceptualize their liberation in alignment with the laws of nature.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 18, 2025

“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

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

And both issues stem from the same formative Silicon Valley worldview that conceptualizes the internet as a place that functions best with as little oversight as possible.

From Slate Aug. 26, 2019

Clinical Is A potentially clinical psychiatric mental health situation becomes "clinical" if the clinician relates to the helpee to awaken his unique potential or ontic wholeness, and noetically transcending this relating conceptualizes its meaning.

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.

“The Filipino influence is incredibly strong, and maybe we haven’t fully conceptualized the scope of its historical importance ... for this part of Mexico.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 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

Dr. Smith: Historically, eating disorders have been conceptualized mostly as anorexia, which has been portrayed as an illness of adolescent females who want to lose weight for aesthetic reasons.

From New York Times Feb. 8, 2024

"For our devices, we conceptualized and designed a nonacene-like molecule with a unique architecture," said co-lead author Preeta Pratakshya, who recently received her Ph.D. in UCI's Department of Chemistry.

From Science Daily Jan. 4, 2024

After recording and exploring my clinical experiential data, a conceptualized response emerged to my question: "Why, as a nurse, am I in the clinical health-nursing situation?"

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.

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

But conceptualizing myself as a person who can also be calm, who can actually handle the world, and realizing that this is my preferred state—that has been so much more helpful.

From Slate Nov. 1, 2023

By describing and conceptualizing the phenomena experienced in nursing situations, nurses could contribute to the development of nursing as a discipline.

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.




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