abstracted

Example Sentences

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One might have expected some gesture toward its origins, rather than its cool and highly abstracted references to Harlem.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

He added that the exemption that allows farmers to take up to 20,000 litres a day without a licence meant no-one could be sure how much water was being abstracted by farms across England.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025

What remains consistent is that in these kitchens, food is abstracted from its source and re-presented as something new.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2025

Linger, for instance, in the bar, and you’ll notice dozens of scenes unfolding inside the windows of the skyscrapers, each one an improvised, abstracted story.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025

This was said with a careless, abstracted indifference, which showed that my solicitude was, at least in his opinion, wholly superfluous.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë