abstraction

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

They understood that functioning markets weren’t an abstraction but rather part of the nation’s confidence, stability and daily life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

What until then had been an abstraction, a mere flirtation with the possibility of death, suddenly materialized before her.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

Whereas Tor has devoted herself to beautiful abstractions, Vica’s 9-to-5 world is calloused and material.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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

Newton’s laws were theoretical, rather simple mathematical abstractions from which all of Tycho’s measurements could ultimately be derived.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan