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abstraction

[ab-strak-shuhn] / æbˈstræk ʃən /


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We must keep struggling to maintain our humanity, though monsters of abstraction threaten and police us.’

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 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

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

What until then had been an abstraction, a mere flirtation with the possibility of death, suddenly materialized before her.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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