abstraction

Example Sentences

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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

If that sounds like a 1997 frat party elevated to political abstraction, fair enough.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

While the choice of map method sounds like a mathematical abstraction, it literally shapes the way billions of people see our world.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026

The gallery has carved out a niche for itself uncovering overlooked midcentury artists from its home country of Argentina, revealing the geniuses who still embraced realism while abstraction was popular there.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

He was not an abstraction who punished you if you were wicked or rewarded you if you were good, but a real person like Guenever, or fike Arthur, or Him anybody else.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White