abstraction

For a lot of people, this is still an abstraction.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

A trillion is a number so large it stops being a number and becomes an abstraction, something inconceivable.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

Located further north along the coast, its broad flat sand dunes inspired a new level of abstraction in his work, and set the stage for the final seascapes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 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

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

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

First, practice distinguishing between what the Constitution says and what judges and justices say about the Constitution, a document riddled with aspirational vagaries and flexible abstractions.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

It creates abstractions of the real world that allow it to assess the outcomes of actions.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Instead of flourishing, people become abstractions within systems optimized for performance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

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 ● Mar. 3, 2026

The entries in McCandless’s journal contain few abstractions about wilderness or, for that matter, few ruminations of any kind.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer