as in nonfigurative
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Adjective
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Lee Ungno has great facility with ink, for example, but executing the densely interwoven vines of a wisteria, frequently a symbol of longevity, to resemble a thoroughly nonfigurative Jackson Pollock drip-painting seems dismissive in a perhaps unintentionally jokey way.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Sep. 2022 -
Abstraction or nonfigurative art was held, if not in some disdain, at least as something less pressing.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Sep. 2022
Adjective
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The Lynx were literal seconds away from a ring last year.—
Chris Branch,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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What to do with that $35 billion in debt created by the literal creation of Warner Bros. Discovery.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2025
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“Nonmetaphorical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonmetaphorical. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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