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Examples of cyborg in a Sentence
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Think cyborg costumes, flamboyant pipe players, and vampires.
—Lina Abascal, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2024
The Cowboys won a bidding war for the services of the 6-foot-7, 270-pound cyborg, giving him a $20,000 signing bonus and $225,000 guaranteed.
—Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 May 2024
The actress, who trained for a year to get into shape for Terminator: Dark Fate, told the outlet that her days of hunting killer cyborgs are over.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2024
Last month, Burkhart, along with perhaps millions of other people, watched the debut of the newest cyborg.
—S. I. Rosenbaum, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2024
Editors’ Picks The realization coincided with a special delivery from Yamaha — an upright Disklavier, a cyborg piano that is wired to play itself from memory or from a laptop’s input that a pianist can simultaneously play.
—Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
One of those creations is RoboCop (Peter Weller), a law-enforcing cyborg who is programmed with the sole intent of eradicating the city’s crime problem—until memories of his human existence find their way back into his head.
—Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2024
Brolin played Cable in Deadpool 2, which found Ryan Reynolds' Wade Wilson calling together a group of mutant rogues to protect a young boy with mutant powers from the time-traveling cyborg.
—Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024
There’s demons, cyborgs, exorcists, and not one but two different bears to play.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
cybernetic + organism
First Known Use
1960, in the meaning defined above
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“Cyborg.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cyborg. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
Medical Definition
cyborg
noun
cy·borg
ˈsī-ˌbȯ(ə)rg
: a bionic human
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