abstract
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“Blue Water” centers the work of Kim Whanki, the late globe-trotting abstract artist and the first RM says he “fell for.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
War is no longer an abstract concept for Australians who often feel removed from the problems facing other parts of the world.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
This particularly productive decade is the focus of Voena’s presentation that shows the Italian artist working with reclaimed advertising posters to create abstract décollage canvases that evolved to also include realist elements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Private equity is abstract by design; the role of these firms is hard to figure for anyone outside of the C-suite.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Uh...yeah, right. I see that you, wow, you typed up—what’s an abstract, again?”
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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Mirabelle says her father was “funnier and weirder” than some of his rigorously painted abstracts might suggest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The evening sale will also include several newer abstracts, dated to 2008 and 2009.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
BrainBench consists of numerous pairs of neuroscience study abstracts.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
He abstracts the written text, creating space between the characters and their lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
As a moral declaration the old truism seems perfectly true, and yet because it abstracts, because it generalizes, I can’t believe it with my stomach.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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Krasner’s muscular collages incorporating charcoal drawings made at Hofmann’s school provide a vigorous finale, with the small elements in the abstracted figures enriching the scale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Local anglers say it is a short distance upstream from where drinking water is abstracted.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
One might have expected some gesture toward its origins, rather than its cool and highly abstracted references to Harlem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
The show is purposefully abstracted, says Hull, to allow audience members to attach their own narratives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
Georgia O’Keeffe called some of her works “equivalents” because their forms were abstracted in a way that gave the emotional parallel of the source experience.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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“They’re not really abstracting away a stable comprehension of the world,” Marcus said of LLMs.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 29, 2025
The bottle is the trap philosophers inadvertently create for themselves by abstracting concepts such as “knowledge,” “being” and “object” from their ordinary usage and analyzing them as though each has some kind of independent essence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
A further four farms were found to be abstracting water without the necessary licence at all.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
We should pay less attention to the precedents and more to the impacts, and we need to stop abstracting the actual gains and losses that come out of these decisions.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2025
Leisured, and skilled at abstracting from immediate experience, the scholar is able to see how aspects of individual experience constitute a culture.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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