abstract from

abstract (something) from (something or some place)

1. To take something without permission. Despite all of the company's security measures, hackers abstracted classified information from the server.
2. To extract key information from a longer document or text. I had to abstract all of the relevant information from that lengthy report and then present it to management.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

abstract something from someone or something

to steal something from someone or something. (Formal.) The officer was found guilty of abstracting a rather large amount of money from the company.
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abstract something from something

to take the important information from a longer document; to extract the essentials or the gist from a piece of complicated writing. Can you abstract a shorter article from this material?
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • abstract
  • abstract (something) from (something or some place)
  • abstracted
  • clearance
  • get (the) clearance to (do something)
  • give (one) (the) clearance to (do something)
  • leak (something) to (someone or something)
  • leak to
  • give (something) under (the) threat of (something)
References in classic literature
But I deny that I can abstract from one another, or conceive separately, those qualities which it is impossible should exist so separated; or that I can frame a general notion, by abstracting from particulars in the manner aforesaid--which last are the two proper acceptations of ABSTRACTION.
The Analysis of Mind
It is a method which does not divorce the present from the past, or the part from the whole, or the abstract from the concrete, or theory from fact, or the divine from the human, or one science from another, but labours to connect them.
Meno
Failure to complete all required information or violation of any submission guideline will disqualify your abstract from consideration.
2014 call for Poster Session abstracts
The reader should be able to logically and smoothly follow the main points of the abstract from beginning to end.
How to develop an outstanding conference research abstract