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“Blue Water” centers the work of Kim Whanki, the late globe-trotting abstract artist and the first RM says he “fell for.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

War is no longer an abstract concept for Australians who often feel removed from the problems facing other parts of the world.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Private equity is abstract by design; the role of these firms is hard to figure for anyone outside of the C-suite.

From Salon ● 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

Then when we started learning about symbolism in Mr. Bonner’s language arts class this year—a concrete representation of a thing or idea that is more abstract in nature—it clicked: the trunk wasn't an actual trunk.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone

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

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

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

If the forms of the Lucas Museum derive from nature, it is nature as abstracted by industrial design.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

It was as if she had abstracted herself from scissors and spectators, projecting not so much courage as strength.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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

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

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