abstraction

Example Sentences

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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

Screwball humor often runs through the pieces; they indulge in abstraction and never skew didactic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

He knows that democracy is not an abstraction.

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2026

While the choice of map method sounds like a mathematical abstraction, it literally shapes the way billions of people see our world.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026

She was prone to errors of deportment—in moments of abstraction she tended to shift her weight onto one foot in a way that particularly enraged her superior.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan