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According to an abstract presented at a medical meeting, there were improvements based on the Disease Activity Index, a common score for assessing the severity of ulcerative colitis.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

In childhood, he paints an abstract picture of God in which the Almighty eerily resembles a movie camera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

These are not abstract changes on a map: they could affect harvests, water supplies and the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

They can change the course of history, give visible form to an abstract concept, and define our image of ourselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

How could principle, an abstract thing floating in the air, wedge itself so solidly between them, and turn Blaine into somebody else?

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This is a model that abstracts away from anatomical detail to focus on the core computations done by simple brains.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

Pollock gained international fame for holding his brush above his canvases to create swirling, dripping abstracts, and a 11-foot-wide version, “Number 7A, 1948,” was the largest example of his signature style in private hands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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

IMGs had an average of 54 abstracts, presentations, and papers in 2022.

From Science Magazine ● May 3, 2024

Evidently it still appeared in the original Red Book, as it did in several of the copies and abstracts.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Local anglers say it is a short distance upstream from where drinking water is abstracted.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

One might have expected some gesture toward its origins, rather than its cool and highly abstracted references to Harlem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

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

The show is centered around her “Linear Language” series, where Hurtado abstracted various words into geometric shapes and patterns to create a new kind of portrait.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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

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