abstract
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Like his poetry, Ashbery’s collection occupies a place at the intersection of representational and abstract, realistic and dream-like, crisp and gestural.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
That pressure would not remain abstract; it would translate into difficult budget decisions affecting a wide range of public services.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
He was not offering a warning about an abstract possibility.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
The capacity to arrange shapes and lines in organized configurations may represent an important sign of emerging abstract thought, a major development in the evolution of human cognition.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
Jack’s arms were crossed now, and he studied Mr. Remora the way you might an abstract painting.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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
Richter, 94, is known for experimenting with ways to refresh traditional painting categories, including portraits, still lifes and abstracts.
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
As a moral declaration the old truism seems perfectly true, and yet because it abstracts, because it generalizes, I can’t believe it with my stomach.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
Brown’s dreamlike visions of the climate and uniquely structured scenes—often with barely there foregrounds that emphasize the abstracted weather surrounding them—owe much to his mentor Ray Yoshida, as well as to Joseph Yoakum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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
The show is purposefully abstracted, says Hull, to allow audience members to attach their own narratives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
But besides his frequent absences, there was another barrier to friendship with him: he seemed of a reserved, an abstracted, and even of a brooding nature.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
“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
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
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