abstraction

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

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

Americans are about to feel this abstraction directly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The process of abstraction it teaches is an essential precondition for the new science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Arendt would later write with matchless severity about statelessness and the “right to have rights”; here those abstractions acquire a prehistory in German-Jewish arrangements that proved disastrously brittle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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

These abstractions become containers in which they store and handle their ideas, and before they know it they can no longer call anything by its name.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker