sapient
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Research also finds that feline characteristics may have rubbed off on their homo sapient counterparts.
From Salon • Oct. 26, 2022
In the game, she says, all of the human characters have different ideas about how sapient AIs are, and how they should be treated.
From The Verge • Feb. 1, 2019
Aphra says things like: well, eventually humanity’s going to be extinct and there will be a race of sapient beetle people living here instead, so really my problems aren’t all that important.
From The Verge • Sep. 15, 2017
Some “filter” may winnow the number of sapient races, low enough to explain our apparent isolation.
From Salon • Jun. 17, 2012
Verb. sap.—you are sapient, I know, like your Sire— And—you'll take this strange "kettle of fish" off the fire!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 1, 1887 by Various
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