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

He knows that democracy is not an abstraction.

From Salon • Mar. 2, 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

Perspective painting generally involves a peculiar form of abstraction: the construction of a vanishing point.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton