abstraction

The EA and Natural Resource Wales grant abstraction licences to farms, but when water levels drop they can impose what is called a "hands-off flow restriction".

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

In many ways, the new abstraction of finance has been a good thing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Double entry, like any mathematical technique, depends on abstraction.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Creating these abstractions involves difficult maths, but essentially they filter out useless information, just leaving the AI with useful pictures of the world.

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

As writers, then, we should try to get into our readers’ heads and be mindful of how easy it is to fall back on parochial jargon and private abstractions.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker