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“Holding joy and fear at the same time is not abstract; it’s rooted in lived experience, medical bias, and real statistics.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Yet, if left abstract, they can obscure the real human people by whom and for whom these laws were enacted.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

More broadly, the findings show how a discovery that began as an abstract mathematical puzzle can lead to unexpected physical effects.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

The show also includes examples from his mid-1980s shift toward more colorful hues, calligraphy-like glyphs and looping lines that collectively confirmed him as one of the most influential abstract painters of the 20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The third goal, he explained, was more abstract.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

“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

He abstracts the written text, creating space between the characters and their lines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024

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

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

Apps themselves might be abstracted away as smartphone agents call online services directly on behalf of their users.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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

Perhaps I had joined the ranks of the global internet proletariat, hammering clicks on the abstracted factory floor of the future?

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025

He added that the exemption that allows farmers to take up to 20,000 litres a day without a licence meant no-one could be sure how much water was being abstracted by farms across England.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

If he left the room for a minute she'd look around uneasily and say "Where's Tom gone?" and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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