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Recent Examples of ideational The United States, of course, cannot share everything—physical or ideational—with its partners. Thomas G. Mahnken, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2024 This ideational convergence, deepened by two decades of accumulating trust between India and the United States, has enhanced the strategic partnership and set the stage for even closer cooperation in the future. Ashley J. Tellis, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2020 Steven Spielberg extends Griffith’s and Ford’s historical insight through an astonishing mix of visual and ideational dialectics. Armond White, National Review, 28 June 2023 Einstein’s theories as ideational relativism. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021 And the Trump Administration is taking concrete steps to encourage this ideational fusion. Time, 13 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideational
Adjective
  • Eventually, a theoretical picture emerged for the supersolid.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
  • These partnerships are crucial for pushing quantum computing beyond its theoretical potential and into practical, scalable business solutions.
    Yuval Boger, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Perhaps that’s why Sedona attracts such a strong enclave of New Age spiritual devotees searching for metaphysical energy in the vortexes allegedly sprinkled throughout its buttes and spires.
    Erin Strout, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024
  • His fascination was with light, optics and the metaphysical, his layered geometric forms made with almost scientific precision.
    Nargess Banks, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The Shakespearean conceptual artist who turned Romeo and Juliet into Hopeless Fountain Kingdom.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
  • This is the conceptual link between WOC and the finance-theoretic concept known as the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH).
    George Calhoun, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Before cuneiform, however, there was an archaic script using abstract pictographic signs called proto-cuneiform.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The artist born in 1988 is known for her large-format, abstract charcoal drawings.
    The Editors of ARTnews, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Williamson said earlier this week that his hamstring is completely healed, but his mental state remains a work in progress.
    oregonlive, oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Sign up That Torrance pushed Vial and Eduardo to such mental anguish does not surprise immigrant-justice advocates.
    María Inés Taracena, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
Adjective
  • The aim, according to its course description, is to use her work as a lens through which to examine Black intellectual thought and activism.
    Angela Yang, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Based out of West Valley College in Saratoga, the College of Adaptive Arts is a nonprofit that provides college programs for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024

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“Ideational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideational. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.

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