sentient

Example Sentences

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No, I don’t mean that your children will soon be disciplined by chatbots or diaper-changed by sentient robots.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

I don’t see why any sentient person would watch one of these things unless they had to, or enjoyed pain.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

“This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI’s mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!”

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

Identifying which animals and systems are sentient could influence animal research practices, farming, food consumption, and conservation strategies.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2026

But what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us—not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us, as individuals.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green