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Recent Examples of sentient An international study revealed that trees, particularly older ones, display a coordinated, anticipatory response to solar eclipses—signaling to each other with bioelectrical pulses in a manner likened to J.R.R. Tolkien's sentient Ents from his classic The Lord of the Rings series. Thomas Westerholm, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 May 2025 Insurance ads, used car rivals, and plugs for a local religious scholar and recording artist, Langdon P. Hershey, all converge to tell the story of an expanding sinkhole, a cult, and an ever-growing restaurant that becomes unsettlingly sentient. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 June 2025 But that’s all backstory, because that single sentient sentence marks a moment of revelation, not just in the book, which is, itself, a watershed effort for Macfarlane, but in the writer’s storied career. Daegan Miller june 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025 An expert machine operator can make a hydraulic arm seem almost sentient. Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for sentient
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Adjective
  • Musk’s comment about Bannon returning to prison was made under a post showing Trump’s Truth Social post, indicating that the billionaire is aware of the threat but is choosing not to respond yet.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 1 July 2025
  • Prince William’s charitable team was not aware of the Mondejar Foundation, nor of its attempts to solicit donations through an exclusive networking group called A Small World by offering access to the royal couple via the polo event.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Baseball bats aren't the only thing Colt is good at picking up, and he could be considered environmentally conscious.
    Liliana Fannin, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025
  • But neighbors have raised concerns about whether the company will handle demolition in a safe and environmentally conscious way.
    Lily Carey, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2025

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“Sentient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sentient. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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