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abstract

[ab-strakt, ab-strakt, ab-strakt, ab-strakt, ab-strakt] / æbˈstrækt, ˈæb strækt, ˈæb strækt, æbˈstrækt, ˈæb strækt /








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This year’s abstract dress code, “Fashion Is Art,” encourages guests to treat the body as a canvas and “to express their own relationship to fashion as an embodied art form.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

Dr. Dadigiri will present the findings from the study, "Beyond sleep alone: How stress and late-night eating disrupt bowel habits and gut microbiome diversity, a multi-cohort study," abstract Mo1769, at 12:30 p.m.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2026

“War is never an abstract policy debate. It is personal. Our neighbors deploy. Our families sacrifice,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Americans are concerned about pump prices but, with no physical shortages, a billion missing barrels seems as abstract as 10,000 pneumonia cases in far-off Wuhan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The Greeks were different; they embraced the abstract and the philosophical, and brought mathematics to its highest point in ancient times.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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