abstraction

Example Sentences

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Located further north along the coast, its broad flat sand dunes inspired a new level of abstraction in his work, and set the stage for the final seascapes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 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

If that sounds like a 1997 frat party elevated to political abstraction, fair enough.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

While the choice of map method sounds like a mathematical abstraction, it literally shapes the way billions of people see our world.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026

Slicing away the layers of familiar abstraction and showing the reader who did what to whom is a never-ending challenge for a writer.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker