materialist
Example Sentences
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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 “Garden,” she questions the power she ascribed to materialist totems— like a wedding, a house and a garden— to bring her happiness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2023
If the "Sex and the City" universe is a fantasia of materialist gloss tethered to reality by genuine truths, then the personifications of this idea should maintain a crumb of constancy.
From Salon • Jul. 23, 2023
But we have no documents from the Natufian culture, so when dealing with ancient periods the materialist school reigns supreme.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
