tabula rasa
Example Sentences
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Somewhere inside a tabula rasa passed off as an office space, a diligent worker is rewarded with a five-minute "dance experience."
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2025
Her desire for a global tabula rasa outstrips that of even the most fanatical Red Guards, who still dominate her mental landscape.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2024
Each of these, Pythagoras to Euclid, could be counted as a tabula rasa.
From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023
Ever since the time of Aristotle, thinkers have assumed that the soul or the mind is initially a blank slate, a tabula rasa on which experiences are painted.
From Scientific American • May 31, 2022
Departments, districts, and cantons presented, and were intended to present, a tabula rasa upon which the law-makers of France might impress any pattern whatsoever.
From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
