abstractly

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Abstractly, Americans were worried about the plight of slaughterhouse workers, but they were also wary of those same workers marching in the streets.

From The Guardian • May 7, 2019

Abstractly, this play may be taking on the biggest concepts imaginable, yet on stage it feels disappointingly small.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2018

Abstractly, I thought about the idea of Newsweek many years before, while I was working for Time Inc. as its first foreign editor.

From Newsweek • Apr. 5, 2015

Abstractly, then, money is one of the ways, indeed a universally accepted way, we make connections.

From Time Magazine Archive

Abstractly, the word emotion is the property or capacity of the mind to be influenced pleasantly or unpleasantly by sensations, perceptions, and ideas.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf