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adverb

abstractly

in abstract terms

In a sentence

Six example sentences with abstractly, each labelled with its topic.

  • Economists talk abstractly about labor supply, then a mill closes and four hundred families look for work at once.

    Economics

  • Children under seven struggle to reason abstractly, which is why the test uses blocks rather than written statements.

    Psychology

  • The pitch described the market abstractly for ten slides before anyone named a single customer or a single price.

    Startups

  • Plato writes abstractly about the good itself, then has Socrates admit he can only describe it through comparisons.

    Philosophy

  • The statute speaks abstractly of reasonable care, and it takes a decade of cases to learn what the phrase demands of a landlord.

    Law

  • The design document described the system abstractly, in boxes and arrows, and left every database choice to the engineers.

    Technology

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