abstraction

Example Sentences

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Journalists moved in the opposite direction, toward uncertainty, because without witnesses, displacement becomes statistics and war becomes abstraction.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 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

He knows that democracy is not an abstraction.

From Salon • Mar. 2, 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

He was not an abstraction who punished you if you were wicked or rewarded you if you were good, but a real person like Guenever, or fike Arthur, or Him anybody else.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White