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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

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

Voters seem open to Medicare for All in the abstract.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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

War, for me, had always been terrifying but also abstract, involving landscapes I couldn’t imagine and people I didn’t know.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

Richter, 94, is known for experimenting with ways to refresh traditional painting categories, including portraits, still lifes and abstracts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 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

She tapped her foot impatiently, probably wondering why I hadn’t been writing abstracts since nursery school.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

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

This abstracted wall, hung high in civilian infrastructure and currently invisible, couldn’t come at a more important time.

From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2025

The show is purposefully abstracted, says Hull, to allow audience members to attach their own narratives.

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

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