abstract
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This is not an exercise in abstract legal theory .
From Salon • Jun. 28, 2026
The dispute was never simply what “arrives in” means in the abstract but what Congress intended that phrase to accomplish within a statutory scheme governing inspection, admission, and asylum.
From Slate • Jun. 26, 2026
In 1952, Greenspan married an abstract expressionist artist named Joan Mitchell and soon came under the intellectual sway of one of her acquaintances, Ayn Rand, author of “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026
For Father Andrew, the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade is not an abstract historical debate, but a clearly visible, structural force shaping the lives of his parishioners today.
From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026
Liszt was moving away from the idea of music as an abstract entity, something to be listened to attentively for forty or so minutes, towards orchestral music as a representation of something extra-musical.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing abstract
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 5
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