abstract
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Several of her vibrant abstract paintings now decorate the restaurant’s walls.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
Circular patterns, placed on abstract “tracks,” represent transit riders.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
“People who were already struggling to stay housed are now one policy cancellation away from financial collapse. This is not an abstract environmental issue. It is happening to families right now.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
“Across the Ages” reveals a culture—omnivorous, regenerative, endlessly adaptable—whose dynamic abstract artworks resist any fixed sense of beginning or end, above or below, foreground or background.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Of course, there was nothing abstract about a face.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing abstract
100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 5
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