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abstraction

[ab-strak-shuhn] / æbˈstræk ʃən /


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From there, the abstraction moved onto the plate.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

This abstraction turned to subterfuge in the challengers’ briefing before the Supreme Court last month.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

His collection, largely unseen by the public until now, according to Christie’s, reflects Davis’ interest in some of the most influential artistic movements of his lifetime, spanning abstraction, Pop art and Neo-Expressionism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

As well as Daniel Sizer's Suffolk farm, the EA has now suspended or limited 1,327 farm licences for abstraction - taking water from rivers.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

The word “chimney” here was not an abstraction; it floated in the air, mingled with the smoke.

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel

In place of coherent thinking tokens, there are just numbers representing nonverbal abstractions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

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

The nuns were not interested in constructing a temple of religious abstractions.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez


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