abstracted

Example Sentences

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One might have expected some gesture toward its origins, rather than its cool and highly abstracted references to Harlem.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

The show is centered around her “Linear Language” series, where Hurtado abstracted various words into geometric shapes and patterns to create a new kind of portrait.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

He added that the exemption that allows farmers to take up to 20,000 litres a day without a licence meant no-one could be sure how much water was being abstracted by farms across England.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025

What remains consistent is that in these kitchens, food is abstracted from its source and re-presented as something new.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2025

If he left the room for a minute she'd look around uneasily and say "Where's Tom gone?" and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald