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Scientists suspect that dopamine and norepinephrine work together to support learning, potentially allowing the brain to acquire several complex and abstract concepts at the same time.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

On tabletops with less abstract design, such as one with a skull depicted, differences in glazing and firing mean there are variations in the hue and colors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

My colleague Alex Galbraith recently argued that food may be where consumers most easily recognize the otherwise abstract mechanics of private equity.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

“The character becomes the brand, turning an abstract technology into a recognizable friend,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

War, for me, had always been terrifying but also abstract, involving landscapes I couldn’t imagine and people I didn’t know.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

The trouble lies in finding Rothko’s coveted, breakthrough 1950s abstracts, as most have filtered into museum collections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

All abstracts were reviewed by the congress selection committee.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026

The evening sale will also include several newer abstracts, dated to 2008 and 2009.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

As good as Teller is as a husband in crisis, the Oscar-winning Randolph is her own commanding source of light, enough to sell this movie’s feel-good abstracts and wry commentaries on her own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 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

It was as if she had abstracted herself from scissors and spectators, projecting not so much courage as strength.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

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

From BBC ● May 6, 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

Gebu halted, turned with an oddly abstracted air and held out his hand for the coins.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

One of the UK's wealthiest women has had to pay £28,000 after abstracting too much water from a chalk stream during a drought.

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