abstract
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That pressure would not remain abstract; it would translate into difficult budget decisions affecting a wide range of public services.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
He was not offering a warning about an abstract possibility.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
In people, language and abstract logical thought are distinct.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
The report switched back to me saying something abstract and philosophical, and then it was over.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
He showed Bancel scientific abstracts mapping out new mRNA concepts in cancer biology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Pollock gained international fame for holding his brush above his canvases to create swirling, dripping abstracts, and a 11-foot-wide version, “Number 7A, 1948,” was the largest example of his signature style in private hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
All abstracts were reviewed by the congress selection committee.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 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
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
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
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
He added that the exemption that allows farmers to take up to 20,000 litres a day without a licence meant no-one could be sure how much water was being abstracted by farms across England.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
He was sitting, propped by several pillows, watching the commotion around him with a kind of abstracted childlike wonder.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
“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
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