How to Use somatic in a Sentence

somatic

adjective
  • The idea behind somatic work is that stress and trauma don’t just live in your mind.
    Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 May 2026
  • When the somatic cell fused with the egg, researchers fertilized the egg with sperm.
    Brian Alexander, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2005
  • What’s more, in somatic medicine, a patient didn’t need to have a good reason for stopping care.
    Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Skin cells, stomach cells, and all somatic cells are mitotic cells.
    David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2016
  • Yoga, breathwork and dance are all forms of somatic movement.
    Renée Onque, CNBC, 14 June 2025
  • But in this patient the sun might have triggered somatic mutations that rescued her cells.
    Jerome Groopman, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The sheer, somatic extremity of such a scene throws the player back out of the body of their avatar and onto their couch.
    Nick Capozzoli, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Eric Sharp is an artist who wants to transfer serene waves of music to your ears through somatic house music.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 24 Feb. 2022
  • That’s why somatic exercises tend to be slow and quiet.
    Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 May 2026
  • But flowers, which contain both kinds of germ cells—pollen and ova—form from active somatic tissue at the tips of growing stems.
    Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Don't like encumbrance rules or somatic requirements to cast spells?
    Jason Bennett, Arkansas Online, 14 June 2021
  • Do yoga and other somatic exercises to learn to listen to your body.
    Dana Miranda, TIME, 26 Dec. 2024
  • In the months that followed, Edwards searched for a healing program with a somatic focus.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Then, as an adult, Bruce started reading books on somatic therapy and the inner child.
    Charles Trepany, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Eight ounces was the weight of my feelings about my body and its ability to perform the somatic functions of motherhood.
    Christie Tate, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
  • There's somatic empathy, the automatic wince when someone slams their hand in a door.
    Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • These people have a somatic mutation.
    Jerome Groopman, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Experiment with one small goal for this time to bolster mental and somatic wellbeing.
    Colin Bedell, Them., 26 Aug. 2025
  • Nietzsche’s writing is short on somatic details of what his headaches actually felt like.
    Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
  • In a video shared to his Instagram that's now gone viral, the somatic healer can be seen standing behind a child, who has her arms crossed.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Not just to her psychologist and her somatic therapist, but to other players.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Both are very valuable, but my mind often overrides intuition or the nature of what my body knows, its somatic intelligence.
    Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 4 Sep. 2025
  • During the pandemic, virtual training has opened up the somatic approach to the bigger world.
    New York Times, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Her approach to stress and trauma aligns with a growing body of work in the somatic therapy field, which focuses on how the body stores and processes stress.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
  • That somatic connection to her paintings is crucial to her mental and spiritual health.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2021
  • This can be performed on the tumor tissue itself to identify changes called somatic mutations that occurred after you were born.
    Jason P. Joseph, The Conversation, 21 May 2025
  • Over time, however, physicians began to acknowledge that their somatic treatments weren’t working very well.
    Celia Ford, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Milly Obdeijn is a trainer and somatic coach with a performance and teaching background in dance.
    Rsm Discovery, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The participants will be taught techniques drawn from movement therapy and somatic yoga.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Some cells pass their genes on to the next generation, the germline cells like eggs and sperm, and then there are all the rest, the somatic cells that support the germline in its quest to propagate itself.
    Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2021

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