intelligent life
noun
: beings that can learn and understand things
looking for signs of intelligent life on other planets
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There’s a wave of new and intelligent life at the indie box office this weekend post-Academy Awards after the traditionally slow, slow period for new openings.
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025
In the often sterile cosmos of the Hollywood space opera, the mere acknowledgment of human horniness is a sign of intelligent life.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
The hard steps theory predicts that few if any other civilizations exist throughout the universe, because so many complex events must happen in a particular sequence, rendering the outcome of intelligent life as highly improbable.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
Researchers from a variety of disciplines, from paleontologists and biologists to astronomers, can work together to learn more about the probability of intelligent life evolving on Earth and elsewhere in the universe.
—Daniel Brady Mills, The Conversation, 14 Feb. 2025
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025
In the often sterile cosmos of the Hollywood space opera, the mere acknowledgment of human horniness is a sign of intelligent life.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
The hard steps theory predicts that few if any other civilizations exist throughout the universe, because so many complex events must happen in a particular sequence, rendering the outcome of intelligent life as highly improbable.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
Researchers from a variety of disciplines, from paleontologists and biologists to astronomers, can work together to learn more about the probability of intelligent life evolving on Earth and elsewhere in the universe.
—Daniel Brady Mills, The Conversation, 14 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for intelligent life
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“Intelligent life.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intelligent%20life. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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