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It would have been different if Thomas had abstracted the figures in the manner of, say, Henry Moore or Constantin Brancusi.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023

It was the same intellect that had abstracted software-engineering principles to scale Google into a megacorp, ensuring that the corporate infrastructure always met the rate of growth.

From Newsweek

He was doing somber C�zanne-like landscapes and gloomy Picassoish nudes and rabbis before most U.S. modern artists had abstracted their first cube.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had abstracted real boar-spears from the armoury, so they were property armed.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

On the one hand, he felt convinced that this man had abstracted his ticket and money.

From Frank and Fearless or The Fortunes of Jasper Kent by Alger, Horatio