abstract

Example Sentences

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The perils of a nuclear disaster seem relatively abstract compared to the very tangible horrors of an earthquake and tsunami.

From The Wall Street Journal

Traveler’s Rachel was supposed to be some abstract figure, some girl who was probably perfectly nice and missed out on the most wonderful boy in all existence.

From Literature

Such gaps are not abstract — they represent real human lives that are lost or mangled.

From Salon

Not everything is abstract, nor is everything expressionist.

From The Wall Street Journal

"The distance reach with structured light, both classical and quantum, remains very low … but this is also an opportunity, stimulating the search for more abstract degrees of freedom to exploit."

From Science Daily