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More broadly, the findings show how a discovery that began as an abstract mathematical puzzle can lead to unexpected physical effects.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

At Bible study groups, family dinner tables and on group chats between friends, what was once an abstract concern to many snowballed into one of society’s most ominous threats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

The cost of this hate is not abstract.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

As James maintains: "As mental phenomena, they are defined on too abstract a level for the goals of cognitive neuroscience."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

Altogether, the abstract was, in the words of Caltech astrophysicist Kip S. Thorne, "one of the most prescient documents in the history of physics and astronomy."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Mirabelle says her father was “funnier and weirder” than some of his rigorously painted abstracts might suggest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

All abstracts were reviewed by the congress selection committee.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026

The evening sale will also include several newer abstracts, dated to 2008 and 2009.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

As good as Teller is as a husband in crisis, the Oscar-winning Randolph is her own commanding source of light, enough to sell this movie’s feel-good abstracts and wry commentaries on her own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 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

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

Local anglers say it is a short distance upstream from where drinking water is abstracted.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

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

For at Disneyland, exaggerations are the norm, and if we let ourselves live in these abstracted worlds, we can sense their heightened emotions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025

They had abstracted real boar-spears from the armoury, so they were property armed.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

This means farms are prevented from abstracting water, this is to protect the environment.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

“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

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