abstraction

Farmers source additional water for their crops and livestock over summer from a combination of stored winter rainfall on site, and by extracting it from natural sources - a process called abstraction.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

For a lot of people, this is still an abstraction.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

As his band moves from abstraction back into song form, his evident freedom at the drum kit—something Roach helped make possible—suggests new meaning for the lyric “I’m gonna sit at the welcome table.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

A trillion is a number so large it stops being a number and becomes an abstraction, something inconceivable.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

He got up, held it close to my eyes: and I read, traced in Indian ink, in my own handwriting, the words “JANE EYRE”—the work doubtless of some moment of abstraction.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

It creates abstractions of the real world that allow it to assess the outcomes of actions.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Power and policy are not abstractions — they impact real people’s bodies, minds and lives, and they affect the well-being of the larger community.

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2026

His Regen show, through March 1, also features short video works and the abstractions of camera-less images he considers “pure photography,” created in the darkroom by shining light directly onto photosensitive paper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026

From Gilbert Stuart’s historic portrait of Thomas Jefferson to Gordon Parks’s penetrating photographs to Alma Thomas’s colorful abstractions, the show reveals the breadth of creative inspiration that has driven American artists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

While the stories were vivid, the lectures were abstract, treatises on obscure philosophical subjects, and it was to these abstractions that I devoted most of my study.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover