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

I draw beside the picture window in the living room upstairs, when there is nobody home, or in the daylight from the cellar window.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood