abstraction
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Americans are about to feel this abstraction directly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Farmers source water for their crops and livestock over summer from a combination of stored winter rainfall on site, and by extracting it from natural sources - a process called abstraction.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
For a lot of people, this is still an abstraction.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
A trillion is a number so large it stops being a number and becomes an abstraction, something inconceivable.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
Slavery was not an abstraction, an economic force, a counter in the game of world politics—it was the suffering of men and women.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
Power and policy are not abstractions — they impact real people’s bodies, minds and lives, and they affect the well-being of the larger community.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2026
His Regen show, through March 1, also features short video works and the abstractions of camera-less images he considers “pure photography,” created in the darkroom by shining light directly onto photosensitive paper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
Kainerugaba has in the past downplayed some of his remarks as "musings" and "abstractions" that do not need to be taken seriously.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
From Gilbert Stuart’s historic portrait of Thomas Jefferson to Gordon Parks’s penetrating photographs to Alma Thomas’s colorful abstractions, the show reveals the breadth of creative inspiration that has driven American artists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
Newton’s laws were theoretical, rather simple mathematical abstractions from which all of Tycho’s measurements could ultimately be derived.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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