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Recent Examples of sentient Some users arrive at the conclusion that the technology is sentient. Webb Wright, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025 In short, Might Gaine is an anime that asks the age-old question of what if Batman were a Japanese teenager with an arsenal of sentient trains that transformed into robots. Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 The scientist experiments with animating parts of a corpse and succeeds in creating a sentient man. Thomas Page McBee, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025 Currently in production in the Georgia capital, the film centers on a sentient AI chauffeur bot that escapes the lab and begins killing reckless drivers under the guise of public safety. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sentient
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Adjective
  • In the other, the teenage boys are becoming aware that their comforts come at the expense of others.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The viewer also sees Selena studying Spanish, acutely aware of the pressures attached to her identity as a Mexican American performer.
    Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Now, Stewart has made a conscious decision to go back to her natural color for fall 2025.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This is especially true with the sun entering Scorpio, and your socially conscious 11th house of associations, community and sense of belonging in the world.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Sentient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sentient. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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