abstraction

Example Sentences

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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

In the final gallery, African-American art realigns with mainstream trends toward abstraction and color fields.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

Slicing away the layers of familiar abstraction and showing the reader who did what to whom is a never-ending challenge for a writer.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker