living thing
Example Sentences
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The harder task is interpretive—learning the rules that connect a genome to the living thing it produces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
In most series, which might employ several over a season, they are interchangeable — which isn’t to say they aren’t valuable, transforming words on a page into a four-dimensional living thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
But the monarchy is about continuity; it is an accretion of what has come before as well as a living thing that responds to the present.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
Further, the disposal of pans poses significant dangers to the environment and, by extension, every living thing in it.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024
They saw no living thing, and not a bird was in the sky; but what the night would bring, if it caught them in that lost land, none of them cared to think.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
