abstract

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“In the abstract, could it work? Sure,” Robert Riley, a former U.S. ambassador to Micronesia, said of a free association agreement with Greenland.

From The Wall Street Journal

Although topology may sound abstract, past theories still depended on the assumption that particles have well-defined motion.

From Science Daily

You don’t have to deny the pain caused by recent inflation to acknowledge that affordability in the abstract, detached from any circumstance, is meaningless.

From The Wall Street Journal

These aren’t abstract legal theories; they are fundamental precepts of our federalist system.

From The Wall Street Journal

She painted colorful, flat, blocky, nearly abstract shapes, but often with a distortion or a twist.

From The Wall Street Journal