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Recent Examples of sapience The myth has left its mark on everything from superhero fantasies to tales of benevolent robots—narratives where artificial or alien life is in communion with human life and arrayed against the ugliest forces that sapience can produce. Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023 Stories of such yearnings also illustrate a key requirement for sapience: resistance to oppression. Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023 This seeming truth is said with a kind of sleepy sapience, as though only the naïve or the self-deluded would imagine anything otherwise. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sapience
Noun
  • Combat human error with human insight and just enough AI.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 1 July 2025
  • This is also a powerful month for spiritual insight.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • According to a recent study from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, human intellect has declined since 2012.
    Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • Customer-facing interactions require human intuition to navigate sensitive moments where empathy, sensitivity and emotional intellect truly matter.
    Joel Frenette, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • While investors should remain aware of the substantial debt and historical sensitivity to market downturns, the long-term prospects for Jazz Pharmaceuticals seem positive for those with a 3-5 year investment horizon.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • Along the same lines, postmenopausal skin can become thinner, drier and more prone to bruising or sensitivity, Kanwal says.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 7 July 2025

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“Sapience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sapience. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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