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At Balenciaga, models wore bloodred contact lenses like cyborg contract killers. — Steff Yotka, Vogue, "The Fall Runways Are Full of Bewitching Clothes, So Let’s Explore Fashion’s Obsession With Horror," 27 Mar. 2019 Toward the end of the video, Lipa transforms into Alita, throwing her cyborg fist up in the air while wearing a skintight black crop top. — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, "Dua Lipa Goes Cyberpunk in Her New Music Video," 24 Jan. 2019 His lab is developing a cyborg based on a T cell that is naturally adept at killing cancer cells. — Eric Smalley, Discover Magazine, "Cellular Cyborgs: How Programmable DNA Strands Might Control Healing," 25 Sep. 2018 He was too committed to the idea of the extended mind—to the prospect of brain-machine combinations, to the glorious cyborg future—to give it up. — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, "The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark," 26 Mar. 2018 The news broke this afternoon that director Neill Blomkamp will helm Robocop Returns, MGM's sequel to the original 1987 film that saw Officer Alex Murphy left for dead and turned into a cyborg who must come to terms with his own free will. — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, "Why 'Robocop' and Neill Blomkamp Need Each Other," 11 July 2018 Thus, researchers at Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and Howard Hughes Medical Institute present DragonflEye, an insanely futuristic cyborg dragonfly that researchers can remote control. — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, "This Genetically-Modified Cyborg Dragonfly Is the Tiniest Drone," 1 June 2017 He’s being hunted by Cable (Josh Brolin, Marvel’s current antagonist of choice), a cyborg from the future and a tough adversary. — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, "Ryan Reynolds takes a comic high dive into 'Deadpool 2'," 14 May 2018 There are the cyborg telemarketers, who sit in call centers playing prerecorded bits of audio to simulate a conversation. — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, "No One Picks Up the Phone Anymore," 31 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cyborg.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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