abstraction
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For a lot of people, this is still an abstraction.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
A trillion is a number so large it stops being a number and becomes an abstraction, something inconceivable.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
In many ways, the new abstraction of finance has been a good thing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
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
Perspective painting generally involves a peculiar form of abstraction: the construction of a vanishing point.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
It creates abstractions of the real world that allow it to assess the outcomes of actions.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Like Homer’s, Mr. Armitage’s gods are not distant abstractions but present projections of human failings, embodiments of forces we struggle to name even after 40 centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Power and policy are not abstractions — they impact real people’s bodies, minds and lives, and they affect the well-being of the larger community.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2026
These are abstractions, and they can get devalued in the discourse.
From Slate ● Dec. 27, 2025
When there was laughter at a joke he didn’t understand Frankie laughed delightedly behind his chair and when the conversation dealt with abstractions his brow furrowed and he became intent and serious.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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