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

If that sounds like a 1997 frat party elevated to political abstraction, fair enough.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

Instead, they argued that intermediate scrutiny requires courts to examine fit, not just at the level of abstraction but as applied to real people.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

The definitive bands working in the style took the loud and rude antagonism of punk and integrated forms outside of rock, incorporating the bass-forward presentation of reggae and the abstraction of art-rock.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

There was much sense in your smile: it was very shrewd, and seemed to make light of your own abstraction.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë