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The massive statue would replace “Infinity,” an abstract stainless-steel sculpture by artist José de Rivera that has stood outside the museum since 1967.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

Only one unfortunate choice mars the whole—the original reproductions of artwork that appear in the original Russian editions are replaced by lovely but abstract images by Gideon Bosker designed to evoke the text.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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

That pressure would not remain abstract; it would translate into difficult budget decisions affecting a wide range of public services.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

My major in international relations with a focus on North Africa was no longer an abstract area of study, it was what I was living, eating, and breathing every day for three months.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

All abstracts were reviewed by the congress selection committee.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026

Richter, 94, is known for experimenting with ways to refresh traditional painting categories, including portraits, still lifes and abstracts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 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

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

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

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

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

Apps themselves might be abstracted away as smartphone agents call online services directly on behalf of their users.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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 stood abstracted for a moment, then became aimlessly mobile.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

“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