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
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
In many ways, the new abstraction of finance has been a good thing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The process of abstraction it teaches is an essential precondition for the new science.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
It creates abstractions of the real world that allow it to assess the outcomes of actions.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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
His Regen show, through March 1, also features short video works and the abstractions of camera-less images he considers “pure photography,” created in the darkroom by shining light directly onto photosensitive paper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
From Gilbert Stuart’s historic portrait of Thomas Jefferson to Gordon Parks’s penetrating photographs to Alma Thomas’s colorful abstractions, the show reveals the breadth of creative inspiration that has driven American artists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
Newton’s laws were theoretical, rather simple mathematical abstractions from which all of Tycho’s measurements could ultimately be derived.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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