inanimate
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Rice cakes join a long list of inanimate objects that time-poor young Chinese have jokingly adopted for low-maintenance companionship in recent years, ranging from mango pits, to rocks, to cardboard dogs.
From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026
Stella's Gingerbread house plushie is an "Amuseable", a line of toys with tiny faces modelled on inanimate objects from toilet rolls to boiled eggs.
From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026
What to do with this inanimate object, whose newly visible rust spots Ms. Wilson began to equate with the cracks she had failed to discern in her marriage?
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Driven or driverless, the car is the most animated of inanimate objects, sometimes literally a cartoon, with a voice, a personality, a name.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2025
I thought he should continue to act, in public, as if I were a large vase or a window: part of the background, inanimate or transparent.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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