abstract
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He was not offering a warning about an abstract possibility.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Most enigmatic, perhaps, are large, two-sided, abstract drawings from the 1970s, both used in transferring images to canvas and ends in themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
It’s fairly abstract but not too difficult to describe.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 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
Once Sumerians had hit upon this phonetic principle, they began to use it for much more than just writing abstract nouns.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
All abstracts were reviewed by the congress selection committee.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026
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 court found the “Gonna Love Me” singer had violated the “prohibition against disclosure of ‘summaries, abstracts, portions and descriptions’” of the final judgment in their divorce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
A “combo” deal for an additional $600 also offered abstracts slated for another conference, as well as “continued work” on “at least 2 full papers for PubMed indexation” over the following 6 months.
From Science Magazine ● May 3, 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
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
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
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
Perhaps I had joined the ranks of the global internet proletariat, hammering clicks on the abstracted factory floor of the future?
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025
Locke brushes his hand over the tops of cattails and bulrushes, looking abstracted.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
“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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