abstract
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The forebrain supports many of the abilities people most closely associate with complex thought, including language, consciousness and abstract reasoning.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
AI is also an immensely powerful research tool, able to find useful information via queries too vague or abstract to be effective in an ordinary Google search.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Opened in 1992, the museum is dedicated to the late Kim Whanki, a celebrated painter and abstract artist, known by many as the "Picasso of Korea".
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“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
It requires an ability to move back and forth between the concrete and the abstract, the immediate example and a scientific theory, and this movement is conceptually and historically problematic.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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
The evening sale will also include several newer abstracts, dated to 2008 and 2009.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
BrainBench consists of numerous pairs of neuroscience study abstracts.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
He abstracts the written text, creating space between the characters and their lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
Evidently it still appeared in the original Red Book, as it did in several of the copies and abstracts.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
If the forms of the Lucas Museum derive from nature, it is nature as abstracted by industrial design.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
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
This abstracted wall, hung high in civilian infrastructure and currently invisible, couldn’t come at a more important time.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 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
Georgia O’Keeffe called some of her works “equivalents” because their forms were abstracted in a way that gave the emotional parallel of the source experience.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
“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
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