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abstraction

[ab-strak-shuhn] / æbˈstræk ʃən /


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But the murkiness doesn’t last long in a production that achieves an admirable balance between objectivity and emotion, abstraction and representation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

I’ve come to think of it as a practical, action-oriented cousin of intuitive eating, a framework I find genuinely generous but occasionally maddening in its abstraction.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

As well as Daniel Sizer's Suffolk farm, the EA has now suspended or limited 1,327 farm licences for abstraction - taking water from rivers.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

The word was created to mark a function; it was an abstraction.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

The entries in McCandless’s journal contain few abstractions about wilderness or, for that matter, few ruminations of any kind.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer


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