abstract
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Black and Indigenous Americans, labor organizers, immigrants, queer people, political dissidents, abuse survivors, and countless others have discovered that rights celebrated in the abstract can evaporate when exercised against the wrong forces.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2026
The setting for this two-hander is more abstract than usual for Hunter, who is one of the theater’s outstanding American realists.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
Zandt published a brief abstract about the Randolph earthquake in Earthquake Notes, but the finding attracted little attention.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026
On one weekend in Tokyo, hundreds of visitors flocked to a zine fair showcasing a wide range of handmade magazines in different sizes and formats -- some incorporating abstract designs, photography or personal monologues.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
I knew it was a deportation center, but those words were abstract until I saw what they meant.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing abstract
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 5
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