abstracted
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Local anglers say it is a short distance upstream from where drinking water is abstracted.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
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
In England, water is abstracted by water companies for public supply, by industry and for use in electricity generation, such as power station cooling.
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
“He would grow abstracted and silent, and a faraway look would come into his eyes, and the building was there before him—every stone.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing abstracted
"The Minister's Black Veil," Vocabulary from the short story
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