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

Perhaps I had joined the ranks of the global internet proletariat, hammering clicks on the abstracted factory floor of the future?

From Slate • Aug. 4, 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

For at Disneyland, exaggerations are the norm, and if we let ourselves live in these abstracted worlds, we can sense their heightened emotions.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

It was a bad idea to rustle or fidget during these pauses: Aunt Lydia might look abstracted but she was aware of every twitch.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood