abstraction

Trade policy tends to arrive in public dressed in abstraction: percentages, agreements, investigations, duties, markets.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

They understood that functioning markets weren’t an abstraction but rather part of the nation’s confidence, stability and daily life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Illustration lost critical standing with the rise of abstraction, according to Moffatt and author Leo Braudy, professor emeritus of English and art history at USC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Gatsby took an arm of each of us and moved forward into the restaurant whereupon Mr. Wolfshiem swallowed a new sentence he was starting and lapsed into a somnambulatory abstraction.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Whereas Tor has devoted herself to beautiful abstractions, Vica’s 9-to-5 world is calloused and material.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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

While the stories were vivid, the lectures were abstract, treatises on obscure philosophical subjects, and it was to these abstractions that I devoted most of my study.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover