concrete idea

Example Sentences

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Ms Barrau told me she now has a concrete idea of what the concept of reparations means.

From BBC • May 10, 2022

These are welcome upgrades, but we won’t have a concrete idea as to how well they perform until we can do an in-depth review.

From The Verge • Sep. 30, 2021

“It’s really hard to maintain that motivation without some concrete idea of when it’s going to pay off,” said Brennan, of Columbia, N.J.

From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2020

I listened twice to this inaugural episode and couldn’t repeat back a single concrete idea, but I definitely got the gist: transformation, feelings, something about vulnerability?

From Slate • May 28, 2019

There is such a thing as a state, as a nation; there is the abstract conception of man; but humanity as a concrete idea does not, and cannot exist.

From The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Garnett, Constance