inanimate
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Rice cakes join a long list of inanimate objects that time-poor young Chinese have jokingly adopted for low-maintenance companionship in recent years, ranging from mango pits, to rocks, to cardboard dogs.
From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026
He amassed around 3,000 inanimate objects, which he started collecting after his father’s death.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
I’d see Kim Kardashian in — what’s that cartoon that she’s in? — anyways, I was like “Oh, my God, I really wanna be an inanimate object like a cat or dog.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025
That’s to say, where rivers are recognised as alive, enlivening presences in story, art and law, rather than –– as Isaac Newton put it –– ‘brute inanimate matter’.
From Salon • May 28, 2025
Instead of pronouns that distinguished between male and female, Sasha’s language had pronouns that distinguished between animate and inanimate objects.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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