abstract
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“We’re pleased to see it computing commonsense outputs from abstract inputs, but we feel admiration toward it rather than warmth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
In California, CalPERS board member Mullissa Willette is among those pushing fund managers to gauge abstract threats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Scientists suspect that dopamine and norepinephrine work together to support learning, potentially allowing the brain to acquire several complex and abstract concepts at the same time.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 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
His paintings were gorgeous abstract masterpieces, and people were comparing him to the masters.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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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
The evening sale will also include several newer abstracts, dated to 2008 and 2009.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
As good as Teller is as a husband in crisis, the Oscar-winning Randolph is her own commanding source of light, enough to sell this movie’s feel-good abstracts and wry commentaries on her own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
BrainBench consists of numerous pairs of neuroscience study abstracts.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 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
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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
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
Local anglers say it is a short distance upstream from where drinking water is abstracted.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
Think of it as theater as a healing exercise, or simply an abstracted evening with elaborate, vibrant costumes and choreographed drones creating new constellations in the sky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
Bogert first gazed speculatively at his fingernails, and then bit at them in abstracted fashion.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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“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
The EA added that it had previously warned the estate to stop over abstracting water in 2018.
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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