abstraction
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Americans are about to feel this abstraction directly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The NFU said abstraction licences should be made more flexible to enable more water to be taken during these wetter winter months ahead of any dry summer spells.
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
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
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
It creates abstractions of the real world that allow it to assess the outcomes of actions.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Instead of flourishing, people become abstractions within systems optimized for performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
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
These abstractions become containers in which they store and handle their ideas, and before they know it they can no longer call anything by its name.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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