abstract
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Wrestling’s treatment of its employees is a bit too abstract to be listed on either man’s autopsy report.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
The chronological installation begins with Evans’s first two pen-and-ink drawings from about 1935: abstract radiating eyes, spirals, zigzags and squiggles—feverish doodles resembling ancient pictographic narratives set down in a trance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
“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
"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
I draw a sweeping abstract something that’s a cross between an amoeba and a manta ray with eyes and mouths in unexpected places.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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This is a model that abstracts away from anatomical detail to focus on the core computations done by simple brains.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
The evening sale will also include several newer abstracts, dated to 2008 and 2009.
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
As good as Teller is as a husband in crisis, the Oscar-winning Randolph is her own commanding source of light, enough to sell this movie’s feel-good abstracts and wry commentaries on her own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
She tapped her foot impatiently, probably wondering why I hadn’t been writing abstracts since nursery school.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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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
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
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
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
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
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“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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