in the abstract
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Black and Indigenous Americans, labor organizers, immigrants, queer people, political dissidents, abuse survivors, and countless others have discovered that rights celebrated in the abstract can evaporate when exercised against the wrong forces.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2026
Pollock, who died in 1956, was a major figure in the abstract expressionist art movement.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
You don’t have to deny the pain caused by recent inflation to acknowledge that affordability in the abstract, detached from any circumstance, is meaningless.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
And I always thought about that in the abstract, but now I try to make the movies not only about the moment I’m in, but about me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2025
The danger which he presented was, after all, not immediate but slow and simmering, a sort which can, at least in the abstract, be postponed or diverted in any number of ways.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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