How to Use ontology in a Sentence

ontology

noun

• The ire for candy corn is cut from the same stalk as the online obsession with sandwich ontology.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2022
• This checks out with my cyborg ontology, my cyborg brain.
  — The Cyborg Jillian Weise, Wired, 21 Dec. 2021
• To this very day, Lenat and his team continue to add terms (facts and concepts) to Cyc's ontology and explain the relationships between them via rules.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2021
• Cyborg ontology is the brain-meld between self and computerized leg.
  — The Cyborg Jillian Weise, Wired, 21 Dec. 2021
• Emezi describes this elaborate ontology in raw, sensual terms, steeping us in the smells and sights of her mythic world with incantatory lines that bring the ineffable to life.
  — David Wright, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2018
• As an art form in which human beings are incarnated, drama is a natural conduit for metaphysics and ontology.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• This plan, if successful, would build a common taxonomy and ontology that connects any piece of health data to any other for faster and more complete population analysis.
  — Peter Hovstadius, STAT, 30 Mar. 2021
• HumanFirst founders say the key is putting the human at the center of drug development, and recently launched the industry’s first comprehensive and open-access ontology of digital measures and endpoints.
  — Greg Licholai, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• But that would require buying many tickets and sitting through many, many hours of people translating medieval ontology into arch latter-day vernacular, saying what is essentially the same thing again and again and again.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2017
• But when conducted best—including in Breville’s case, and despite Hoare’s insistence otherwise—design is more related to the philosophy of what things are, called ontology.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017
• This ontology is more fundamental than the frothy influencer economy.
  — Hari Kunzru, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• With a prolific career including more than 90 works, Lin developed his own choreographic style blending Western dance with Eastern ontology.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Using an ontology model, consisting of multiple data sets that can be reused by different kinds of applications and for different uses, becomes a necessary step in data normalization.
  — Shaun Cooley, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• Using a solution based on standardized ontology and capable of extracting data through a single, secure connection provides the foundation for a common language for systems from different OEMs and manufacturers.
  — Shaun Cooley, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• Its drama of willful obliviousness is elevated, through Losey’s aesthetic, into a cinematic ontology.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2019
• Temporalities, ontologies, and epistemologies are discussed.
  — Nate Berg, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024