Examples of sapience in a Sentence
the kind of sapience that comes from a lifetime of experience as an educator
Recent Examples on the Web
The myth has left its mark on everything from superhero fantasies to tales of benevolent robots—narratives where artificial or alien life is in communion with human life and arrayed against the ugliest forces that sapience can produce.
—
Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
Stories of such yearnings also illustrate a key requirement for sapience: resistance to oppression.
—Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
This seeming truth is said with a kind of sleepy sapience, as though only the naïve or the self-deluded would imagine anything otherwise.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
Stories of such yearnings also illustrate a key requirement for sapience: resistance to oppression.
—Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
This seeming truth is said with a kind of sleepy sapience, as though only the naïve or the self-deluded would imagine anything otherwise.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
Cite this Entry
“Sapience.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sapience. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
Copy CitationKids Definition
sapience
noun
sa·pi·ence
ˈsā-pē-ən(t)s 
ˈsap-ē-
Love words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share