abstract
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More than 100 of his creations made from the 1950s through the 1980s outline his career, from its beginnings in functional pottery to explorations in abstract formalist constructions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
No longer a distant or abstract entity, he now felt inextricably linked to his followers and their reactions to his work.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
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
We’d talked in abstract ways about how each of us viewed marriage, and it worried me sometimes how different those views seemed to be.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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
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
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
Apps themselves might be abstracted away as smartphone agents call online services directly on behalf of their users.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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
Think of it as theater as a healing exercise, or simply an abstracted evening with elaborate, vibrant costumes and choreographed drones creating new constellations in the sky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
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
He stood abstracted for a moment, then became aimlessly mobile.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
“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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