abstract
Example Sentences
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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.
"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
An azure booth is flanked by an abstracted mermaid sculpture, and elsewhere howling wolves are engraved into the bar tops.
From Los Angeles Times
The next word, "fünf," suggests something countable, excluding abstract ideas such as love or thirst.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
