abstract
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He was not offering a warning about an abstract possibility.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
In people, language and abstract logical thought are distinct.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 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
In childhood, he paints an abstract picture of God in which the Almighty eerily resembles a movie camera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Gradually, the forms of the signs became more abstract, especially when the pointed writing tools were replaced by reed styluses.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
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
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
In England, water is abstracted by water companies for public supply, by industry and for use in electricity generation, such as power station cooling.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 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
A further four farms were found to be abstracting water without the necessary licence at all.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 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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