abstract
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It’s fairly abstract but not too difficult to describe.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
From a distance, these stark white pieces are twisting abstract forms, but as you move closer the tragedy frozen in time comes into focus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
How could principle, an abstract thing floating in the air, wedge itself so solidly between them, and turn Blaine into somebody else?
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
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
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
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
Local anglers say it is a short distance upstream from where drinking water is abstracted.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
They had abstracted real boar-spears from the armoury, so they were property armed.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
“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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