abstract
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“The character becomes the brand, turning an abstract technology into a recognizable friend,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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
“Blue Water” centers the work of Kim Whanki, the late globe-trotting abstract artist and the first RM says he “fell for.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 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
“An abstract of our argument for the debate tonight.”
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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This is a model that abstracts away from anatomical detail to focus on the core computations done by simple brains.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
Pollock gained international fame for holding his brush above his canvases to create swirling, dripping abstracts, and a 11-foot-wide version, “Number 7A, 1948,” was the largest example of his signature style in private hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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
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
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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
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
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
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
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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
This means farms are prevented from abstracting water, this is to protect the environment.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 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
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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