materialist

Example Sentences

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A strict materialist explanation must posit a so-far-unknown capability of the brain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

If the "Sex and the City" universe is a fantasia of materialist gloss tethered to reality by genuine truths, then the personifications of this idea should maintain a crumb of constancy.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2023

Rastafari reject materialist values and often practice a strict oneness with nature, eating only unprocessed foods as part of “Ital” their faith’s vegetarian diet.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2023

The government’s experiment stirred a collective consciousness that art was not about a personal pursuit or materialist effort.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2023

Thomas Hobbes, although he was not an atomist, had developed a materialist, Epicurean philosophy which was universally understood to be hostile to religion.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton