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In California, CalPERS board member Mullissa Willette is among those pushing fund managers to gauge abstract threats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Scientists suspect that dopamine and norepinephrine work together to support learning, potentially allowing the brain to acquire several complex and abstract concepts at the same time.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

“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

I am staring at him, and his face morphs into abstract shapes, and I think, This is reality; everything is made of shapes; no one is human; language is shapes.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

Mirabelle says her father was “funnier and weirder” than some of his rigorously painted abstracts might suggest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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

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

BrainBench consists of numerous pairs of neuroscience study abstracts.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

As a moral declaration the old truism seems perfectly true, and yet because it abstracts, because it generalizes, I can’t believe it with my stomach.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

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

An azure booth is flanked by an abstracted mermaid sculpture, and elsewhere howling wolves are engraved into the bar tops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 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

Georgia O’Keeffe called some of her works “equivalents” because their forms were abstracted in a way that gave the emotional parallel of the source experience.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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