abstraction
Example Sentences
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Journalists moved in the opposite direction, toward uncertainty, because without witnesses, displacement becomes statistics and war becomes abstraction.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
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
He knows that democracy is not an abstraction.
From Salon • Mar. 2, 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
What until then had been an abstraction, a mere flirtation with the possibility of death, suddenly materialized before her.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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