abstraction
Example Sentences
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We must keep struggling to maintain our humanity, though monsters of abstraction threaten and police us.’
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
There are Supreme Court cases that arrive draped in abstraction.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 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
Double entry, like any mathematical technique, depends on abstraction.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing abstraction
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