nobody home
Example Sentences
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Some scholars claim that LLMs develop knowledge about the world, but most experts say otherwise — that while these technologies write coherently, there’s nobody home.
From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2023
That's one of the things that led to — certainly on the corporate side — people thinking we need to have more family-friendly policies because there is nobody home watching the kids.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2016
Imagine how big Rodgers' eyes got when he saw nobody home to defend Randall Cobb.
From Chicago Tribune • Dec. 30, 2013
So should we be welcoming Agnes Brown into the pantheon of comedy greats, or changing the pantheon's locks and pretending there's nobody home?
From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2013
Any second they might peek through the window of our house, see nobody home, and realize what happened.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.