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What does the Latin root of abstract translate to?

abstract

[ab-strakt, ab-strakt, ab-strakt, ab-strakt, ab-strakt] / æbˈstrækt, ˈæb strækt, ˈæb strækt, æbˈstrækt, ˈæb strækt /








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Opened in 1992, the museum is dedicated to the late Kim Whanki, a celebrated painter and abstract artist, known by many as the "Picasso of Korea".

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

“Holding joy and fear at the same time is not abstract; it’s rooted in lived experience, medical bias, and real statistics.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

Yet, if left abstract, they can obscure the real human people by whom and for whom these laws were enacted.

From Slate Sep. 16, 2026

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

The third goal, he explained, was more abstract.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

The trouble lies in finding Rothko’s coveted, breakthrough 1950s abstracts, as most have filtered into museum collections.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

All abstracts were reviewed by the congress selection committee.

From Science Daily Apr. 13, 2026

He abstracts the written text, creating space between the characters and their lines.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 12, 2024

She tapped her foot impatiently, probably wondering why I hadn’t been writing abstracts since nursery school.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

If the forms of the Lucas Museum derive from nature, it is nature as abstracted by industrial design.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

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

This abstracted wall, hung high in civilian infrastructure and currently invisible, couldn’t come at a more important time.

From Slate Dec. 29, 2025

If he left the room for a minute she'd look around uneasily and say "Where's Tom gone?" and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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

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




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