How to Use conceptualize in a Sentence

conceptualize

verb
  • She described her plans to me, but I found them hard to conceptualize.
  • A programmer needs to analyze and conceptualize in order to solve problems.
  • He conceptualizes the family as an economic unit.
  • Cagan says the show was conceptualized in May, written in two months, and then shot over just six days.
    WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The new gym and pool complex took five years to conceptualize and construct.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Aug. 2021
  • The term was coined by Ward Cunningham as a way to conceptualize this idea.
    Michael Engstler, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • How does one conceptualize hair and makeup for a show of this caliber?
    Shalwah Evans, Essence, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Caliente spent two days within arm’s reach of the Porsche to conceptualize the design before embarking on the two-week paint job.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 May 2021
  • Nowhere is this difference more visible than in the way that Qur’anic schools—and the men who function in them—are conceptualized.
    Hadiza Kere Abdulrahman, Quartz Africa, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Even though the great work of SAP has set the corporate tone; there is still a broader approach that is needed to conceptualize change.
    Jonathan Kaufman, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The longer-term perspective, though, is hard for many to conceptualize.
    Martin Leo Rivers, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • Some can't even conceptualize the notion of a single death.
    Robyn Silverman, CNN, 30 June 2020
  • As the era of too-much-TV lumbers on, the mystery of how to conceptualize television as a format remains.
    The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The Dove Awards were conceptualized by singer-songwriter Bill Gaither in 1968.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 29 Dec. 2023
  • In school, he was taught about being able to cook and conceptualize culinary concepts.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • None of the costumes are rented, so every piece on stage is conceptualized by Costumer Barb Szaro.
    Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 Aug. 2019
  • For laymen, that kind of data may feel hard to conceptualize, or plainly scary.
    The Indianapolis Star, 27 July 2023
  • Goldman also had to conceptualize how to show the type of action scenes that are usually ubiquitous in the heist genre.
    Rosa Escandon, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • But the horror of what we have been expected to live through, and what we are now expected to leave behind, seems too enormous to conceptualize.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Kenny Gravillis joins the team for the first time to conceptualize the key art for this year’s Oscars marketing campaign.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2022
  • My training taught me how to study the ways people conceptualize and then interact with outsiders.
    Maggie Paxson, Time, 19 Sep. 2019
  • In a week's time, Austin and her team had fully conceptualized a way to convert their brick-and-mortar space into a virtual model.
    Josh Rivera, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The ocean and atmosphere are simply too vast and complex for our minds to finely conceptualize or our tools to fully contain.
    Greg Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
  • One way to conceptualize these differences is to think of a continuum running from white wines to red wines.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The id wasn’t conceptualized as something that regulated or judged a person’s needs or wants.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Humans are likely the only species that is able to wonder about how other species (and other members of our own species) conceptualize time, says Bryant.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Those that are more easily quantifiable help conceptualize the price of job cuts.
    Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Others conceptualize it as a fear of the unknown, with the understanding that the unknown has the potential to be threatening.
    Morgan Sweeney, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Ramos helps conceptualize her own self-care as an imaginary pie chart in her head, with slices for spending time on work, family, friends, and herself.
    Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 14 Jan. 2019
  • Working on the audio series has helped Cooper conceptualize his own losses in new ways.
    Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022

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