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Example sentences for: inanimate

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In a recent letter in Nature, “Lexical organization of nouns and verbs in the brain,” Alfonso Caramazza and Argye E. Hills reported on patients' relative ability to control specific semantic categories, such as abstract vs. concrete words, animate vs. inanimate, etc., based on the dysfunction of a part of the brain.
Unfortunately, we don't have a clue how a tricorder might work, since life forms don't seem to have any observable property that distinguishes them from inanimate matter.
That's when she drops the article before some harmless inanimate object, lending it a kind of pseudohuman agency.
They were animists who revered the spirits they believed to be in the living things and inanimate objects around them.
--that, in the end, owes more to metaphysics (divining the essential natures of things as inanimate as software programs) than to reason.