abstract
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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
The pathway toward the security checkpoint was adorned with a bright abstract mural, hanging lights and swaying palm trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
His debut album has drawn comparisons to Radiohead and Jeff Buckley for its moments of abstract beauty and devastating emotional release.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
On January 15, 1934, the journal Physical Review published a very concise abstract of a presentation that had been conducted by Zwicky and Baade the previous month at Stanford University.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
This is a model that abstracts away from anatomical detail to focus on the core computations done by simple brains.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
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
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
She tapped her foot impatiently, probably wondering why I hadn’t been writing abstracts since nursery school.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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
An azure booth is flanked by an abstracted mermaid sculpture, and elsewhere howling wolves are engraved into the bar tops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 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
One might have expected some gesture toward its origins, rather than its cool and highly abstracted references to Harlem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
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
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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