Examples of “notional” in a Sentence

adj Existing only as an idea, not as something real.

• He was now receiving reports of a second suspect Anglo Leasing deal, this time for the notional provision of a state-of-the-art police forensic laboratory. — Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower (2009)
• This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.
• The idea that a rooster says cock-a-doodle-doo rather than ooh ooh-ooh ooh-ooh is socially conventional even though its sound correspondence is at heart notional.