abstracting
- present participle of abstract.
Example Sentences
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“They’re not really abstracting away a stable comprehension of the world,” Marcus said of LLMs.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 29, 2025
The bottle is the trap philosophers inadvertently create for themselves by abstracting concepts such as “knowledge,” “being” and “object” from their ordinary usage and analyzing them as though each has some kind of independent essence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025
We should pay less attention to the precedents and more to the impacts, and we need to stop abstracting the actual gains and losses that come out of these decisions.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2025
The EA added that it had previously warned the estate to stop over abstracting water in 2018.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2025
Leisured, and skilled at abstracting from immediate experience, the scholar is able to see how aspects of individual experience constitute a culture.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
