abstraction

The second one can be a bit of an extra abstraction for people.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

Compared to its long-form predecessors, the seven-part “Path of the Parallels” focuses more on songs and less on sonic abstraction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 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

There was much sense in your smile: it was very shrewd, and seemed to make light of your own abstraction.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

When there was laughter at a joke he didn’t understand Frankie laughed delightedly behind his chair and when the conversation dealt with abstractions his brow furrowed and he became intent and serious.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck