abstract
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In her philanthropy she wasn’t abstract but particular and concrete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
I knew it was a deportation center, but those words were abstract until I saw what they meant.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
He showed Bancel scientific abstracts mapping out new mRNA concepts in cancer biology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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
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
It was as if she had abstracted herself from scissors and spectators, projecting not so much courage as strength.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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
Local anglers say it is a short distance upstream from where drinking water is abstracted.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
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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