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Recent Examples of abjection But what obsessed me were the lyrics, which describe tragi-comically bleak scenes of contemporary abjection using language that felt borderline Shakespearean, tied up in elaborate rhyme schemes and tight lexical knots. Meaghan Garvey, Pitchfork, 3 Apr. 2025 Today, however, sensuality and leisure have eclipsed images of abjection and vulnerability. Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025 The personal abjection in McGahern’s novels is best understood as an allegory of social despair, which is in turn allegorical of a godless existence. Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 Her experience taught her both the power and the abjection of a life lived on public display. Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for abjection
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Noun
  • For engineers, all this means coupling MLOps with DevOps by integrating retraining triggers, model validation steps and performance degradation alerts directly into deployment pipelines.
    Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • High-speed charging generates substantial thermal energy, which can accelerate cell degradation, reduce the battery’s overall lifespan, and in rare cases, lead to safety issues like thermal runaway.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Leading up to the protests, the hashtag #NepoBaby had been trending in the country, largely to criticize the extravagant lifestyles of local politicians' children and call out corruption, NPR previously reported.
    Juliana Kim, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Apart from lifting the ban on social media, the protesters’ other demands included that the Prime Minister resign and that Nepal establish an independent watchdog body similar to an ombudsman to monitor corruption.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Abjection.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abjection. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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