inanimate
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It’s a projection onto the inanimate world of animism.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
The film’s body is drained — an inanimate husk.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Mathers tapped into her creative side when she got the Dare prompt to “Have a deep and meaningful conversation with an inanimate object for 60 seconds.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
"I do feel they were being treated like inanimate objects. They didn't treat them as living, delicate beings."
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Dad was a perpetual optimist, confident that brains someday would triumph over inanimate steel; bolstered in the belief that he entered the fray with clean hands and a pure heart.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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