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Scientists suspect that dopamine and norepinephrine work together to support learning, potentially allowing the brain to acquire several complex and abstract concepts at the same time.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

In Kubrick’s films, men get caught up in a faceless, abstract, all-powerful system, fight it with everything they have, and are ground to dust—with one notable exception.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Isamu Noguchi created a baby monitor before baby monitors were a thing: the Radio Nurse, a dark Bakelite receiver resembling an abstract face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

My colleague Alex Galbraith recently argued that food may be where consumers most easily recognize the otherwise abstract mechanics of private equity.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

The report switched back to me saying something abstract and philosophical, and then it was over.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

He showed Bancel scientific abstracts mapping out new mRNA concepts in cancer biology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

This is a model that abstracts away from anatomical detail to focus on the core computations done by simple brains.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

“It’s not that I don’t ask ChatGPT medical questions but when I do, I always look for the references, click on them and read the abstracts at a minimum,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 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

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

Krasner’s muscular collages incorporating charcoal drawings made at Hofmann’s school provide a vigorous finale, with the small elements in the abstracted figures enriching the scale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

An azure booth is flanked by an abstracted mermaid sculpture, and elsewhere howling wolves are engraved into the bar tops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 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

The show is purposefully abstracted, says Hull, to allow audience members to attach their own narratives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025

He was sitting, propped by several pillows, watching the commotion around him with a kind of abstracted childlike wonder.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

I learned early to keep abstracting out from the trade to the portfolio to the business that produces the portfolio.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

The EA added that it had previously warned the estate to stop over abstracting water in 2018.

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