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And Monday, instead of studying abstract play designs, he was publishing some impenetrable language of his own to prove a decades-old mathematical conjecture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Isamu Noguchi created a baby monitor before baby monitors were a thing: the Radio Nurse, a dark Bakelite receiver resembling an abstract face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Wrestling’s treatment of its employees is a bit too abstract to be listed on either man’s autopsy report.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

"There's an interesting fusion between science and art, and a lot of the images that scientists are making have some very abstract and artistic qualities to them."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Gardner's world was the abstract realm of codes, clues, and interpretation.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

He showed Bancel scientific abstracts mapping out new mRNA concepts in cancer biology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

All abstracts were reviewed by the congress selection committee.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026

“It’s not that I don’t ask ChatGPT medical questions but when I do, I always look for the references, click on them and read the abstracts at a minimum,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 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

She tapped her foot impatiently, probably wondering why I hadn’t been writing abstracts since nursery school.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

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

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

Local anglers say it is a short distance upstream from where drinking water is abstracted.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

This abstracted wall, hung high in civilian infrastructure and currently invisible, couldn’t come at a more important time.

From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2025

It was a bad idea to rustle or fidget during these pauses: Aunt Lydia might look abstracted but she was aware of every twitch.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

I learned early to keep abstracting out from the trade to the portfolio to the business that produces the portfolio.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

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

The EA added that it had previously warned the estate to stop over abstracting water in 2018.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 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