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as in spiritual
not composed of matter
it is only possible to study immaterial forces like gravity by observing their effects on the physical world
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as in irrelevant
not having anything to do with the matter at hand
while undoubtedly upsetting, that story is immaterial to the question of why you are late
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Recent Examples of immaterial
Some see the paltry number of artifacts returned as an inherent insult, while others protest that the immaterial aspects of their cultural past were never lost and shouldn’t be discounted.
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
To a threat actor working to break into and move through a network, the form and function of an asset is immaterial.
—Jim Hyman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
The hackers were also members of the People’s Liberation Army, but their employer was immaterial; theft was theft.
—Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2020
Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer rejected the prosecution’s claim that the evidence was immaterial to the defense.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
To a threat actor working to break into and move through a network, the form and function of an asset is immaterial.
—Jim Hyman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
The hackers were also members of the People’s Liberation Army, but their employer was immaterial; theft was theft.
—Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2020
Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer rejected the prosecution’s claim that the evidence was immaterial to the defense.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
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As the two compete to disprove the existence of the other’s passion, they get caught up in an encounter of both the spiritual and paranormal, imbuing both teenagers with powers beyond belief.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
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Or at the very least, take some cues from Kwanzaa, invented in 1966, which established a tradition of giving modest, meaningful gifts to children, separate from (i.e. after) Christmas, with no Santa myth, and with some cultural or spiritual significance.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Authority figures disproportionately influence decisions, even when their preferences are irrelevant.Shanna Apitz, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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In the box score, the Cincinnati Bengals’ 37-27 victory against the Tennessee Titans will look like a largely irrelevant game between two teams no longer a real factor in the playoff chase (though the Bengals are holding on to the slimmest of hopes).Paul Dehner Jr., The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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If reason teaches that God is incorporeal, this means that God has no body; God does not physically see, nor do people see God.Randy L. Friedman, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
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The digital files are incorporeal.BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
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Although the machines’ inventor is concerned with metaphysical questions—do intelligent robots disprove God’s existence?—his engineer son sees the potential for major profit and manufactures robots for sale around the world, with disastrous results.Elvia Wilk, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
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Her interest in mysteries and the occult began in the metaphysical section at her local Borders.Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 13 Dec. 2024
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Put simply, superheated plasma was being tested as fuel, but the temperatures melted any sort of solid container, so the experiments used nonmaterial vessels formed from extremely powerful magnetic fields.Werner Herzog, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
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The author excludes them all, asserting that belief in any kind of nonmaterial, ethereal world lacks empirical support.Denis Alexander, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
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Yet, beneath the cliché lies a fundamental truth: Culture is the invisible backbone of organizational success.Marius Ivanauskas, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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On a nearly invisible corner of 307th Street and 475th Avenue in the middle of Union County, South Dakota, where farmland hugs you from everywhere and the topography begins to roll, is the Nora Store.Angela George, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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Making a film that’s exciting, that’s scary in moments and deals with supernatural — there’s a ghost haunting these ideas.Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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Happy whales strapped with barrels of coins, supernatural serpentine disco queens.Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
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Ansari answers crypto question with call for campaign finance reform Ansari’s candidacy was boosted by a massive expenditure from advocates of cryptocurrency, the digital currencies that exist on nonphysical, decentralized ledger systems.Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2024
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One of Ansari’s top financial backers was a group advocating for cryptocurrency, the digital currencies that exist on nonphysical, decentralized ledger systems.Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Immaterial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immaterial. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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