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.
  • How does one conceptualize hair and makeup for a show of this caliber?
    — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The new gym and pool complex took five years to conceptualize and construct.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Aug. 2021
  • And what was your process for conceptualizing this project?
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Each boutique is conceptualized and designed by the brand’s in-house team.
    — David Moin, WWD, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Theo is really the one who sets up our whole setlist for our tours and conceptualizes and creates the whole show.
    — Jeff Benjamin, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2024
  • For laymen, that kind of data may feel hard to conceptualize, or plainly scary.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 27 July 2023
  • The longer-term perspective, though, is hard for many to conceptualize.
    — Martin Leo Rivers, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • Cagan says the show was conceptualized in May, written in two months, and then shot over just six days.
    — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Though many projects have been conceptualized, only a few have been realized so far.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 12 Sep. 2017
  • In school, he was taught about being able to cook and conceptualize culinary concepts.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2021
  • In this case, boys seem to be conceptualizing their aura as a deep presence and self-awareness.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 26 July 2024
  • In the olden days, a lot of winter beers were conceptualized as stronger with more alcohol.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
  • But who conceptualizes and designs these games?
    — Ben Rosenstock, Time, 18 May 2026
  • The term was coined by Ward Cunningham as a way to conceptualize this idea.
    — Michael Engstler, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • What was your vision for the project and what went into conceptualizing that sonic and visual world?
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 7 May 2024
  • In the government, a lot of people have done some good work on conceptualizing the problem.
    — WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
  • My training taught me how to study the ways people conceptualize and then interact with outsiders.
    — Maggie Paxson, Time, 19 Sep. 2019
  • One way to conceptualize this challenge is through the lens of lifespan versus healthspan, the period of life spent in good health.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 17 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • And some people like Russell Hantz cannot conceptualize that there's no such thing as a winner that should not have won.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Olivia conceptualizes and brews a number of Sequoia’s sakes each year and helps her parents design its labels.
    — Madeleine Mori, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This, in turn, yields insights that are of lesser depth and breadth which may result in ideas that are conceptualized at a higher level of abstraction.
    — Tomoko Yokoi, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024

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