How to Use somatic in a Sentence
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When the somatic cell fused with the egg, researchers fertilized the egg with sperm.
—Brian Alexander, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2005
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The sheer, somatic extremity of such a scene throws the player back out of the body of their avatar and onto their couch.
—Nick Capozzoli, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2019
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Eric Sharp is an artist who wants to transfer serene waves of music to your ears through somatic house music.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 24 Feb. 2022
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But flowers, which contain both kinds of germ cells—pollen and ova—form from active somatic tissue at the tips of growing stems.
—Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 29 Aug. 2019
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In the months that followed, Edwards searched for a healing program with a somatic focus.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2022
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Some cells pass their genes on to the next generation, the germline cells like eggs and sperm, and then there are all the rest, the somatic cells that support the germline in its quest to propagate itself.
—Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2021
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Eight ounces was the weight of my feelings about my body and its ability to perform the somatic functions of motherhood.
—Christie Tate, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
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Despite the focus on somatic gene editing, the summit, the last in a series of three, could not avoid the shadow of He’s experiment.
—Bykai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 13 Mar. 2023
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Skin cells, stomach cells, and all somatic cells are mitotic cells.
—David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2016
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The study involved 99 people with somatic tinnitus, each of whom were given a prototype device for home treatment over the course of the study.
—Anton Benz, Scientific American, 13 July 2023
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During the pandemic, virtual training has opened up the somatic approach to the bigger world.
—New York Times, 22 Jan. 2021
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But acceptance jumped to 39% if the enhancement was in somatic cells, and only 35% objected.
—Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 10 Aug. 2017
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Don't like encumbrance rules or somatic requirements to cast spells?
—Jason Bennett, Arkansas Online, 14 June 2021
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Milly Obdeijn is a trainer and somatic coach with a performance and teaching background in dance.
—Rsm Discovery, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
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In some cases, Lanier Payne says people might have somatic symptoms, including physical pain and headaches.
—Ashley Abramson, Allure, 26 Feb. 2020
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My Body, My Choice: Legalization and regulation will be based on somatic rights.
—Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2011
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Not just to her psychologist and her somatic therapist, but to other players.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
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Neck and shoulder tension, shallow breathing, and tears are all somatic reactions to trauma, says Dr. Hargons.
—Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 11 Jan. 2021
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Through the practice of somatic exercises and stress relief techniques, Liz is guiding people into a more simple path toward weight loss.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
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That somatic connection to her paintings is crucial to her mental and spiritual health.
—BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2021
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The news comes three months after Sema4 announced plans to exit another line of business — somatic oncology — and close its first Connecticut lab, in Branford.
—Hartford Courant, 14 Nov. 2022
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Father to a child named Atreus, Kratos’s emotionally repressed parenting reflected his somatic approach to the world.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2022
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Visits to the school nurse for somatic complaints related to mental health are up 60%, and there’s been a 50% increase in school nurse visits for anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder over the last three years.
—Seamus McAvoy, courant.com, 6 Apr. 2022
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These challenges have also negatively impacted employee health with an increase in somatic symptoms of stress, such as soreness in the neck and shoulders.
—Allbusiness, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
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In some children, mutations appeared in some but not all their brain cells, somatic mutations that slowly built up during brain development.
—Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 3 June 2022
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Your body's nervous system includes the somatic nervous system, where your nerves deliver information from your brain to your muscles.
—Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 12 Jan. 2023
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Adam Haar Horowitz, who is running the experiment, speaks to me over Zoom, monitoring my somatic information.
—Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
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But what? Animals, according to somatic therapists, tremble and quiver to discharge stress.
—Rachel Sherman Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
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Jade is a somatic therapist and uses the computer to see patients virtually.
—Kristi Eaton, SELF, 12 Aug. 2021
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Over time, therapies that focus on the mind-body link, including homeopathy, yoga, somatic therapy, EMDR therapy, and acupuncture, seem to take the edge off.
—Anjali Enjeti, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
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