abstract
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Several of her vibrant abstract paintings now decorate the restaurant’s walls.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
“War is never an abstract policy debate. It is personal. Our neighbors deploy. Our families sacrifice,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
“People who were already struggling to stay housed are now one policy cancellation away from financial collapse. This is not an abstract environmental issue. It is happening to families right now.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
The Harvard Art Museums offer a comprehensive survey of the Celtic aesthetic—full of sinuous and sophisticated abstract forms—from the Iron Age into the Middle Ages and beyond.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Even as genetics was being used to justify sweeping changes in law and society, the gene itself had remained a doggedly abstract entity, a ghost lurking in the biological machine.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing abstract
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 5
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