The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ABSTRACTS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result ABSTRACTS
- Removes / non-representational paintings
- Some modern art is appealing, with time yielding to nonsense, crudely
- Synopses of a bishop’s religious treaties
- Summarises theoretical positions at the end
- 22 Abbreviates A, B, C … and starts translation
- Removes works by Pollock, say
- Takes works of Picasso, say
- Makes off with some works of art
- Summaries for graduates' dissertations
- Summaries of car option pamphlets
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The straight part
We know that "Takes" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case takes = abstracts.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ABSTRACTS mean?
ABSTRACTS noun- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- An abstract work of art.
- A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- To separate; to disengage.
- To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- To extract by means of distillation.
- To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To withdraw oneself; to retire.
- To draw off (interest or attention).
- To perform the process of abstraction.
- To create abstractions.
- To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".