Example Sentences

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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

BrainBench consists of numerous pairs of neuroscience study abstracts.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2024

IMGs had an average of 54 abstracts, presentations, and papers in 2022.

From Science Magazine • May 3, 2024

As a moral declaration the old truism seems perfectly true, and yet because it abstracts, because it generalizes, I can’t believe it with my stomach.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien