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Neill’s penchant for the weird and abstract allowed him to use his unique features and distinct, gravelly voice to create characters who were as devilishly memorable as the beasts they went up against.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 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

But the concerns of rights groups and protesters -- many drawn from middle-class backgrounds -- also seem distant and abstract.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

For young people, the debate over AI isn’t abstract.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

How did Mendel’s abstract “unit of heredity” become manifest as a physical trait?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

The evening sale will also include several newer abstracts, dated to 2008 and 2009.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

He abstracts the written text, creating space between the characters and their lines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024

In Texas, a $4500 online course spanning 6 to 12 months promised four abstracts and four full-length papers.

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

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

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

I was brought out of my abstracted state by a salmon-colored cloud passing low in the sky.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

“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