materialist

Example Sentences

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“Now that’s a Nüwü spiritual way of looking at things, as opposed to this materialist representation of monetary wealth and consumption and greed.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

The empirical challenge to the materialist position from terminal lucidity implies that consciousness can exist independently of the brain but isn’t necessarily “evidence for the human soul.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Rastafari reject materialist values and often practice a strict oneness with nature.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2024

In 1967, Mr. Celant noticed that some members of the postwar generation of young artists were using humor, provocation and unconventional materials to rebel against both older artistic orthodoxies and materialist pop culture.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2023

You do not, I would add, need to be an historical materialist to see that historians need to think about change, development, origins.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton