inanimate
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Humans have a tendency to anthropomorphize animals and even inanimate objects, says Ayanna Howard, dean of Ohio State University’s College of Engineering and a roboticist who has researched why humans blindly trust machines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
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
Driven or driverless, the car is the most animated of inanimate objects, sometimes literally a cartoon, with a voice, a personality, a name.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2025
Tom Ogden wrote an indie-pop anthem about the incident, then dedicated their fifth album to the unfortunate inanimate ape.
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2024
It stuck to people, animals, and inanimate objects like peanut butter.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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