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Sentence count:228+3Posted:2017-07-04Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: abstractingabstractabstracteddistractionabstractedlytractionretractionsubtractionMeaning: [-kʃn]  n. 1. a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance 2. the act of withdrawing or removing something 3. the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances 4. an abstract painting 5. preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else 6. a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples. 
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31. Reflective abstraction is the abstraction of new knowledge from editing knowledge gained by reflection or thought.
32. In objectification, the artefact appears to be instrumental in linking these major processes of abstraction and specificity.
33. And it is not some realm of pure mathematics, which is in itself a mere abstraction.
34. I brought him some geometric abstractions -- he was not into abstraction anymore -- he was very helpful.
35. Her early work depicted a dreamy hinterland between landscape and abstraction, like the molten scenes of late Turner.
36. This stage is seen as characteristic of other elements of abstraction, such as the growth of intellectual abilities.
37. Here is a place of pure abstraction and perfection, free of earthly contamination.
38. Exacerbated by drought, water abstraction has increased by 70 percent over the past three years to satisfy consumer demand.
39. These are an abstraction of real systems or processes which are used to represent the basic variable and constant features.
40. Dating from 1911 they not only show how he moved towards complete abstraction but also his unflagging inventiveness.
41. Generalisation and abstraction, which reflect real-world relationships where objects can inherit properties from their parents, are supported.
42. With Slavic delight in swerving to extremes, many an artist initially turned to abstraction.
43. Comrade Preobrazhensky preaches abstraction from politics but in point of fact, apart from politics, there is absolutely nothing in the work.
44. Successive abstractions: these define the situation in terms of higher and lower levels of abstraction.
45. But she senses my momentary abstraction, thinks she's won the fight and lets her guard slip.
46. Beauty had become an abstraction; she was never caught off-guard by it.
47. Bourdieu implies the same Romantic preference for the work ethic and antipathy towards abstraction as Veblen.
48. Such abstraction is essential to human understanding[sentencedict.com], and it has opened up comprehension of natural processes in an amazing way.
49. Loyalty to the person of the monarch gave way to allegiance to the abstraction of the state.
50. If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos. Robert Brault 
51. The problem has been compounded by other factors, including increased water abstraction and land drainage.
52. Until now, our generation only knew war as an abstraction.
53. It is a concept, an abstraction, a term with no single precise and agreed meaning.
54. Academic, or theoretical,[http://sentencedict.com/abstraction.html] discourse is not privileged but is instead a form of accounting which uses abstraction to illuminate.
55. A process or an abstraction has to be caught on the wing.
56. During that time, he has pursued his own path, favouring lyrical abstraction at the expense of changing fashion.
57. Freud came very close to seeing the individual of modern Western society as being an abstraction from group psychology.
58. At first glance, his trademark paintings and sculptures seem to be the simplest form of abstraction.
59. Every general term and every abstraction is an elaboration of this, and is matched by reality with its often indeterminate borders.
60. This produces structures of different detail at varying levels of abstraction.
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