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"There's an interesting fusion between science and art, and a lot of the images that scientists are making have some very abstract and artistic qualities to them."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The right way to fix the holes in the floor is kind of abstract, while the screws and plates in my utility closet are right there.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

This particularly productive decade is the focus of Voena’s presentation that shows the Italian artist working with reclaimed advertising posters to create abstract décollage canvases that evolved to also include realist elements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The forebrain supports many of the abilities people most closely associate with complex thought, including language, consciousness and abstract reasoning.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

What had been self-conscious was now impersonal, almost abstract.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

He showed Bancel scientific abstracts mapping out new mRNA concepts in cancer biology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

All abstracts were reviewed by the congress selection committee.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026

Richter, 94, is known for experimenting with ways to refresh traditional painting categories, including portraits, still lifes and abstracts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

He abstracts the written text, creating space between the characters and their lines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024

Evidently it still appeared in the original Red Book, as it did in several of the copies and abstracts.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

The show is purposefully abstracted, says Hull, to allow audience members to attach their own narratives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025

Gebu halted, turned with an oddly abstracted air and held out his hand for the coins.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

This means farms are prevented from abstracting water, this is to protect the environment.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

“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

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