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Recent Examples of sapience Some people go the other way and say that sapience alone might be enough. IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2025 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
  • Luckey told me that his central insight with Oculus was to distinguish himself from competitors by focussing less on the headset’s mechanism and more on its software.
    Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • However, only 120 appear on Google Maps for the entire state, meaning finding the restrooms may require a bit more local insight.
    Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Batman, who relied not on superpowers but on his own intellect, was the thinking-man’s superhero.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 July 2025
  • Success doesn’t just depend on the talent and intellect of this group working in concert.
    Dr. Eric George, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The Justice Department has cited the need to protect the identities of victims and witnesses, along with the sensitivity of grand jury materials, as reasons for withholding additional evidence.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
  • The new price cap on Russian crude will remain flexible in line with market dynamics and will be set at just above 47 dollars per barrel at current market prices, according to four European officials who spoke to CNBC on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic.
    Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 18 July 2025

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“Sapience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sapience. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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