abstraction
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The EA and Natural Resource Wales grant abstraction licences to farms, but when water levels drop they can impose what is called a "hands-off flow restriction".
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Every analogy works at a sufficiently high level of abstraction.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
A trillion is a number so large it stops being a number and becomes an abstraction, something inconceivable.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
We must keep struggling to maintain our humanity, though monsters of abstraction threaten and police us.’
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
She might have been blithe about dying when it was abstraction, but she wasn’t now.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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
Or they could simply be arresting abstractions in a sculpture that sits aesthetically between formal attraction and repulsion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 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
They loved the simple, concrete way she could convey theological abstractions.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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