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adjective

conceptual

being or characterized by concepts or their formation

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Six example sentences with conceptual, each labelled with its topic.

  • The dispute is conceptual rather than factual: both sides accept the same evidence and disagree about what counts as knowledge.

    Philosophy

  • A conceptual leap arrives around age four, when a child grasps that another person can hold a false belief.

    Psychology

  • The first six months were conceptual work, with no code written until the team could state the problem in one line.

    Startups

  • The show is conceptual: the idea on the wall label matters more than the pile of chairs beneath it.

    Art

  • Einstein's early work was largely conceptual, reworking the idea of time before any experiment could test it.

    Science

  • The team spent a week on the conceptual model, agreeing what a customer and an order were before designing a table.

    Technology

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