abstract
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The capacity to arrange shapes and lines in organized configurations may represent an important sign of emerging abstract thought, a major development in the evolution of human cognition.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
One classic study found that dressing more formally for work leads to the higher levels of abstract, big-picture thinking associated with someone in a powerful position!
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Jonathan Chait: This is an abstract theoretical point that’s unlikely to happen any time soon, but you never know.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 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
Even though theater is part of the “arts,” an airy term, the time students spend with him is actually the least abstract part of their day—certainly less theoretical than a math, science, or history class.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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
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
A “combo” deal for an additional $600 also offered abstracts slated for another conference, as well as “continued work” on “at least 2 full papers for PubMed indexation” over the following 6 months.
From Science Magazine ● May 3, 2024
She tapped her foot impatiently, probably wondering why I hadn’t been writing abstracts since nursery school.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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
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
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
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
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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