ambient
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The dream of ambient computing is to be able to walk around and utter any request into thin air, like the high-powered voice computer system in “Her.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
That ethereal, ambient thing at the end kills me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Public and communal resources can be easy to undervalue precisely because so much of their worth is ambient.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
In that case, the liquid ends up at car temperature, which is considerably higher than ambient.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Her responses to our son, their laughter, the simple, ambient noise of that time.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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