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Turning her eyes westward, she became a student of the avant-garde flourishing in Europe and America, and began creating abstract works that quickly gained attention at home and abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

That pressure would not remain abstract; it would translate into difficult budget decisions affecting a wide range of public services.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

He was not offering a warning about an abstract possibility.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

In people, language and abstract logical thought are distinct.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

But it wasn’t “something”; it wasn’t just an abstract noise, a sound with no meaning.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

Pollock gained international fame for holding his brush above his canvases to create swirling, dripping abstracts, and a 11-foot-wide version, “Number 7A, 1948,” was the largest example of his signature style in private hands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

All abstracts were reviewed by the congress selection committee.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026

His late 1980s abstracts have historically sold the best, with a collector in 2015 paying a record-setting $46.5 million for one of his 1986 untitled abstracts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

The court found the “Gonna Love Me” singer had violated the “prohibition against disclosure of ‘summaries, abstracts, portions and descriptions’” of the final judgment in their divorce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025

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

Brown’s dreamlike visions of the climate and uniquely structured scenes—often with barely there foregrounds that emphasize the abstracted weather surrounding them—owe much to his mentor Ray Yoshida, as well as to Joseph Yoakum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

An azure booth is flanked by an abstracted mermaid sculpture, and elsewhere howling wolves are engraved into the bar tops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 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

In England, water is abstracted by water companies for public supply, by industry and for use in electricity generation, such as power station cooling.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

“He would grow abstracted and silent, and a faraway look would come into his eyes, and the building was there before him—every stone.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

“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