abstract
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He wasn’t an abstract artist from the get-go.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
These differences "cannot be resolved by simply reading an abstract right to strike into Convention No.87 and trying to impose it on employers, workers and governments", said Santos.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
Pollock, who died in 1956, was a major figure in the abstract expressionist art movement.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Prior to this, designers often avoided using religious figures; they preferred more abstract interpretations; it also helped prevent any controversy that might emerge from depicting sacred figures.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
Galileo’s telescope made two ideas that had previously seemed abstract and theoretical suddenly seem plausible and perfectly realistic: there might indeed be other inhabited worlds, and space might indeed be infinite.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing abstract
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 5
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