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abstraction

[ab-strak-shuhn] / æbˈstræk ʃən /


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Yet well into the 20th century, both pagan and Christian Celtic abstraction was considered to be merely decorative and inferior to classical representation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 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

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

He knows that democracy is not an abstraction.

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2026

The weight of heredity is not an abstraction for me.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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