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Example sentences for: abstraction

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By comparison, Will, the hero of About a Boy , is an abstraction, the sort of handsome cipher you see in magazine ads for khakis.
It's infused with a mournful 1950s-era Existentialism, and Paz's French influence pushes him into abstraction.
The resulting swaths of color, like beach towels rippling on a laundry line, create a planar kind of abstraction, with large areas of smooth, erased whiteness.
In the abstraction process, nurses were instructed to note any discrepancies or uncertain information for review by the study's developmental pediatrician who made all final coding decisions while remaining blinded to fish consumption status.
Coach in the artistic or sports sense is an abstraction of the vehicle sense; for as the OED explains, an instructor was thought to convey his students toward mastery.