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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

"This research adds to a growing body of work establishing that even severely aphasic individuals can preserve their ability for abstract logical thought -- a defining feature of our species," Fedorenko says.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

Jonathan Chait: This is an abstract theoretical point that’s unlikely to happen any time soon, but you never know.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 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

They are all abstract and blend perfectly with the color theme of each room.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

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

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

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

Brown’s dreamlike visions of the climate and uniquely structured scenes—often with barely there foregrounds that emphasize the abstracted weather surrounding them—owe much to his mentor Ray Yoshida, as well as to Joseph Yoakum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

Another key factor is the need to reduce how much water is taken – or "abstracted" – by water companies and other users from England's rivers, the report says.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025

What remains consistent is that in these kitchens, food is abstracted from its source and re-presented as something new.

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2025

I was brought out of my abstracted state by a salmon-colored cloud passing low in the sky.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

“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