gonads
Example Sentences
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Instead of living out several identities — Latina/lesbian/gun-owning/Christian — that pull in different directions, they turn themselves into monads.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2017
A system that treats them as mechanical monads is inhumane.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016
Everything that exists, he believed, is made up of units called monads, and these monads have absolutely no way of impinging on or communicating with one another—Leibniz referred to them as “windowless.”
From The New Yorker • Aug. 29, 2016
Some monads withdraw back into the purity of their own subcultures.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 2014
We cannot conceive any action either of bodies upon bodies or of monads upon monads; consequently, of the organs upon the conscious being, still less.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul