abstraction
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They brilliantly bridge figuration and abstraction by letting the dressed body tell the story.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
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
If that sounds like a 1997 frat party elevated to political abstraction, fair enough.
From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026
“Economic man,” that great abstraction of economic science, is supposed to do whatever it takes, within certain limits, to maximize his economic advantage.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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