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
Another key factor is the need to reduce how much water is taken – or "abstracted" – by water companies and other users from England's rivers, the report says.
From BBC • Jun. 17, 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
Linger, for instance, in the bar, and you’ll notice dozens of scenes unfolding inside the windows of the skyscrapers, each one an improvised, abstracted story.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 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
Vocabulary lists containing abstracted
"The Minister's Black Veil," Vocabulary from the short story
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