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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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“Blue Water” centers the work of Kim Whanki, the late globe-trotting abstract artist and the first RM says he “fell for.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

"There's an interesting fusion between science and art, and a lot of the images that scientists are making have some very abstract and artistic qualities to them."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The right way to fix the holes in the floor is kind of abstract, while the screws and plates in my utility closet are right there.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

This particularly productive decade is the focus of Voena’s presentation that shows the Italian artist working with reclaimed advertising posters to create abstract décollage canvases that evolved to also include realist elements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

We’d talked in abstract ways about how each of us viewed marriage, and it worried me sometimes how different those views seemed to be.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

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

BrainBench consists of numerous pairs of neuroscience study abstracts.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

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

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

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

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

Think of it as theater as a healing exercise, or simply an abstracted evening with elaborate, vibrant costumes and choreographed drones creating new constellations in the sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025

Perhaps I had joined the ranks of the global internet proletariat, hammering clicks on the abstracted factory floor of the future?

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025

But besides his frequent absences, there was another barrier to friendship with him: he seemed of a reserved, an abstracted, and even of a brooding nature.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

A further four farms were found to be abstracting water without the necessary licence at all.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 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


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