abstraction
Example Sentences
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It wasn’t until he started to doubt whether he wanted a career in the abstractions of mathematics that he thought of economics as an alternative.
Journalists moved in the opposite direction, toward uncertainty, because without witnesses, displacement becomes statistics and war becomes abstraction.
From Los Angeles Times
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
The few other highlights in the show are overwhelmed by a surfeit of lifeless abstractions, eye-glazing prints and vacuous conceptual works.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
