as in aware
having specified facts or feelings actively impressed on the mind
sentient of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane
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Recent Examples of sentient
The book is centered on a woman who has just lost her job and her fiancé and ends up employed by a flower shop where her co-workers include a beautiful shop manager and a carnivorous, sentient orchid.
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Brooke Sopelsa, NBC news, 4 July 2025
Today is my first, most sentient day after leaving Glastonbury for the sixth time.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 2 July 2025
An Antarctic blue whale, for example, is a sentient being with its own thoughts and emotions.
—Madison Dapcevich, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2025
Attacking the concepts with an edge of Black Mirror, youthful characters forgo the stress of a body altogether and upload themselves to a neural computer network, seek oblivion from sentient boulders.
—Michelle Tea
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
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Brooke Sopelsa, NBC news, 4 July 2025
Today is my first, most sentient day after leaving Glastonbury for the sixth time.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 2 July 2025
An Antarctic blue whale, for example, is a sentient being with its own thoughts and emotions.
—Madison Dapcevich, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2025
Attacking the concepts with an edge of Black Mirror, youthful characters forgo the stress of a body altogether and upload themselves to a neural computer network, seek oblivion from sentient boulders.
—Michelle Tea
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for sentient
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sentient
Adjective
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Authorities aren't aware of any other injured, Police Chief Joe Silva said.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
26 July 2025
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Young musicians coming out of music schools should be aware of all the other kinds of music, and should be able to play those other types of music, because 95 percent of them will not play in symphony orchestras or as soloists.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 July 2025
Adjective
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The teenager was conscious and breathing when paramedics took him to the hospital.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
28 July 2025
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Renaissance people weren’t conscious egalitarians, but they were accustomed to open contests and competitions, one of the hallmarks of modernity.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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“Sentient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sentient. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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