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somatic

[soh-mat-ik, suh-] / soʊˈmæt ɪk, sə- /


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The somatic metaphor has seized the punditry—the AI industry is tumbling forward uncontrollably at the hands of its private leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

These cells were created from induced pluripotent stem cells, which are made by reprogramming ordinary human somatic cells so that they regain the ability to develop into many different cell types.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

If an onomatopoeia names a sound, non-lexical vocables create a linguistic expression of somatic emotion without using actual language.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Taylor-Joy is an ethereal wisp of a thing — very much the somatic opposite of Waddingham — but she sells the action well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

From this germinal protoplasm, which makes the germ-cells, he distinguishes the somatic protoplasm which makes the mortal, somatic cells.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig


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