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Recent Examples of nonabstract
In New York City, these economic consequences tend to be nonabstract.
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Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonabstract
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About 20 international teams with gather at the Swiss Army’s training area, where their robots will be pushed through extreme terrain and realistic military scenarios at one of Europe’s most demanding field trials for unmanned systems.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Apr. 2026
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Caravaggio is best known for dramatic and realistic paintings, often from the Bible, and infused with contrasting light and shadow.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Apr. 2026
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Everything down to gear strategy had to account for the physical toll that seven marathons would inevitably have on her body.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
18 Apr. 2026
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This was the old Magic — the nasty, physical, suffocating defensive team that made every possession feel like work.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 Apr. 2026
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Those referrals are well-intentioned, but they are not always grounded in objective performance metrics.—
Mathias P. Bostrom,
Fortune,
16 Apr. 2026
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Lam said Vietnam would regard developing relations with China as its objective need, strategic choice and topic priority.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Apr. 2026
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Westminster’s Mendez Freedom Trail sets in concrete the story of a landmark civil rights court case, in which the ruling 79 years ago Tuesday, April 14, made the segregation of Mexican-American students in California public schools unconstitutional.—
Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
14 Apr. 2026
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An upstairs primary suite of nearly 1,000 square feet, meanwhile, flaunts a floating soapstone fireplace and a concrete soaking tub hovering over the grounds.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
14 Apr. 2026
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Her own work moves between evocative and representational — but there’s always a thread.—
The Editors of ARTnews,
ARTnews.com,
14 Apr. 2026
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This means that representational alignment may be a solvable problem and a step toward addressing broader alignment challenges.—
Arryn Robbins,
The Conversation,
11 Mar. 2026
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After five months, DriveSavers recovered the contents of two of them, with artifacts of the damage still visible in certain images.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Sirius is the brightest nighttime star, and the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major, the Big Dog, still barely visible in the low early evening southwestern sky.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
19 Apr. 2026
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Campbell’s script has both stylized and naturalistic dialogue, giving us a group of teens who feel painfully real in their inconsistency.—
Jourdain Searles,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Mar. 2026
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Masri’s drumming is lithe and spacious even at its most aggressive; just as Alcorn’s guitar slides move with a gravity-defying, naturalistic force, his attacks seem to sprout out of each other independently, emerging in thickets.—
H.D. Angel,
Pitchfork,
4 Mar. 2026
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For many around the world, the effects of this system — higher energy costs, disrupted trade, regional insecurity — are increasingly tangible.—
Gaurav Srivastava,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Apr. 2026
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The red planet is the apple of Elon Musk’s eye, with utopian concepts for a Mars settlement to go along with SpaceX’s more tangible work on a massive rocket to actually fly there.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Nonabstract.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonabstract. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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