abstraction

Each tile is the same size, but for most of the tables, the abstraction of the design means collectors can choose how they are arranged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

This abstraction turned to subterfuge in the challengers’ briefing before the Supreme Court last month.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

I’ve come to think of it as a practical, action-oriented cousin of intuitive eating, a framework I find genuinely generous but occasionally maddening in its abstraction.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

As well as Daniel Sizer's Suffolk farm, the EA has now suspended or limited 1,327 farm licences for abstraction - taking water from rivers.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Everything in the world dies, but we only know about it as a kind of abstraction.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

In place of coherent thinking tokens, there are just numbers representing nonverbal abstractions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The lack of recognition, Feldman argues, reverberates through Caland’s heavily impastoed portraits of Moses and her enigmatic late abstractions such as the rectilinear paintings in the “Silent Letter Series.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

For troops’ families, such abstractions, repeated in media discourse, have concrete consequences when their loved ones don’t come home on time.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

First, practice distinguishing between what the Constitution says and what judges and justices say about the Constitution, a document riddled with aspirational vagaries and flexible abstractions.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

They loved the simple, concrete way she could convey theological abstractions.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom