abstraction

Example Sentences

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A Defra spokesperson said £2bn of water company investment had been secured over five years to restore chalk streams as well as upgrading the abstraction licensing system.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

If that sounds like a 1997 frat party elevated to political abstraction, fair enough.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

Instead, they argued that intermediate scrutiny requires courts to examine fit, not just at the level of abstraction but as applied to real people.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

They combine animals and figures; architecture, ladders and wagons; abstraction and representation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

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