abstract
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Opened in 1992, the museum is dedicated to the late Kim Whanki, a celebrated painter and abstract artist, known by many as the "Picasso of Korea".
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“Holding joy and fear at the same time is not abstract; it’s rooted in lived experience, medical bias, and real statistics.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Yet, if left abstract, they can obscure the real human people by whom and for whom these laws were enacted.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
More broadly, the findings show how a discovery that began as an abstract mathematical puzzle can lead to unexpected physical effects.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Lately my art has been getting more and more abstract, as if the lines are pulling my hand rather than the other way around.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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He showed Bancel scientific abstracts mapping out new mRNA concepts in cancer biology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
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
The court found the “Gonna Love Me” singer had violated the “prohibition against disclosure of ‘summaries, abstracts, portions and descriptions’” of the final judgment in their divorce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 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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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
Local anglers say it is a short distance upstream from where drinking water is abstracted.
From BBC ● May 6, 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
Locke brushes his hand over the tops of cattails and bulrushes, looking abstracted.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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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
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