abstraction
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The geometric abstraction is assembled from panels of triangles in the “flying geese” style used by quilters that, in legend, would have offered secret maps to those fleeing on the Underground Railroad.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
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
Perspective painting generally involves a peculiar form of abstraction: the construction of a vanishing point.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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