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- noun Plural form of
abstract . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
abstract .
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Examples
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Did Iowans have to pay lawyers to revew the title abstracts and make judgments about the issues presented?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Increasing Competition in the Real Estate Industry: 2007
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If one abstracts from the cost of renting vineyard land or (as Steve does) purchasing grapes, then a $10 assessment for the production cost of 750 ml. of serious wine (implying inter alia controlled yields; hand - or highly strategized machine-harvesting; extended élevage = upbringing &c.) is still plausible.
Why so few tasty American wines under $12? Wine importer Bobby Kacher | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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The due date for abstracts is only a few days away — 5 September 2008 — but we are told that they will be happy to accept abstracts and full submissions up until 26 September 2008.
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* DEADLINE for submission of abstracts is DECEMBER 19 at 5: 00pm.
Upcoming Symposium on Fan Productions | Fan Cinema Today 2008
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I liked how Oates established the mundane so well in the beginning followed by a total destruction of normalcy, how Connie abstracts from the situation in dealing with it.
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2007
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The closing date for the submission of abstracts is 7 September 2007
August 2007 2007
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JournalJunkie provides medical professionals with immediate audio access to abstracts from the latest medical journals.
January 2007 2007
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You speak in abstracts and avoid the details that (like it or not) the world moves with and reacts to.
Think Progress » Dick Morris: ‘Civil War Is Progress’ In Iraq 2006
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Swift falsifies his picture of the world by refusing to see anything in human life except dirt, folly and wickedness, but the part which he abstracts from the whole does exist, and it is something which we all know about while shrinking from mentioning it.
Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gullivers Travels 1946
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We are not all professors who deal in abstracts, so we coin some.
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