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object

[ob-jikt, -jekt, uhb-jekt] / ˈɒb dʒɪkt, -dʒɛkt, əbˈdʒɛkt /


NOUN
aim, recipient
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His best-known series of sculptures, “Future Relics,” is visually arresting, featuring crumbling, ruin-like replicas of everyday objects including cameras, phones and CD players.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Even without additional launches,” he writes, “the chain reactions of continuously colliding objects in orbit bring the possibility of creating even more circling debris.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The platinum spike may have come from a volcanic fissure eruption in Iceland rather than an object from space.

From Science Daily

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

James Fishback is almost certainly not going to win the GOP nomination for governor of Florida this year, but he’s become an object of media fascination all the same.

From Salon