How to Use bionic in a Sentence
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Aidan took it in stride though, and now has a bionic humerus.
—Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 2 Dec. 2019
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The first film co-stars mimes Shields and Yarnell, as a $600 bionic man and woman.
—David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com, 23 June 2017
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Giuffria can put on her bionic arm and shake your hand.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 22 June 2018
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Her bionic hand makes use of fishing line to open and close her fingers with a flick of her wrist, the video says.
—Michael McGough, sacbee, 31 Mar. 2018
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The bionic leg made a sort of squelching sound — a result of the gears and motors shifting.
—Sofia Jeremias, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
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There is a high-tech bionic arm, a low-cost Jaipur Foot, and a series of humble zip ties.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2020
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Both shows ended in 1978, but the bionic theme endured.
—Daniel E. Slotnik, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017
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Now, Walgamott can use his thoughts to tell the fingers of his bionic hand to pick up eggs and grapes.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 July 2019
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From there, all the scientists had to do was flash a light on their new bionic mushroom.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2018
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In this study, there were seven people who had the surgery, and then this bionic device used with it.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 July 2024
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The bionic feline can walk, stretch, play with toys, avoid obstacles and bite its nails.
—Kaya Yurieff and Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 9 Jan. 2020
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On the quest to create a true bionic limbJaguars in the night... Meet the man who has been recording nature for three decades.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2012
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Once you’re done, the bionic hedgehog responds to sound commands.
—Time For Kids, Time, 22 Nov. 2019
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Perhaps the most enthralling of the additions was the bionic menagerie of monkeys and giraffes that roamed the park daily.
—Megan Venzin, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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There aren't enough bionic men on the planet to produce a proper stereotype.
—Erik Sofge, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2012
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But driving one of these things is like wrestling a bionic octopus.
—Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2018
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One way of doing so came from a partnership with Open Bionics, the creators of bionic limbs.
—Washington Post, 17 May 2021
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Since beginning the use of the bionic arm in mid-2019, Karin has attested to an improved daily life.
—Sandra Rose Salathe, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
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Turns out trusting your trigger finger to a bionic arm isn’t such a great idea in the first of many bizarro jokes involving the scene-stealing limb.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
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Their device, which looks like a bionic pair of shorts, shifts the orientation of the wearer's pelvis when that wearer slips and begins to fall.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 12 May 2017
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The goal of current bionic research is to recover what was taken.
—Erik Sofge, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2012
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Although bionic noses may still lie far in the future, Chong’s work still represents major progress for the field, Datta says.
—Grace Huckins, Wired, 25 June 2020
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OnePlus’s bionic vision wasn’t the only big story happening in the tech world this week.
—Popular Science, 16 May 2020
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For the upcoming season, each of the team’s linemen received bionic looking knee braces, which retail for $900 a pair.
—Laine Higgins, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
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After recovery from surgery, the bionic hand is moved from its temporary position on the arm brace to the end of the candidate's wrist.
—Dan Robitzski, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
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Perhaps the best part: This one only requires bodyweight to drive your hamstrings to bionic levels.
—Men's Health, 6 Jan. 2023
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According to the Guardian’s Ploszajski, the scientists have been working on their bionic limb for around 15 years.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 26 July 2019
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Polymer Between its stainless steel construction and solid brass fittings, this hose lived up to the bionic billing in our tests.
—Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 18 Apr. 2022
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Each bionic hand costs only a couple hundred dollars and takes about a week to make, according to UNLV.
—Rebecca Bratek, CBS News, 12 June 2018
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Most state-of-the-art bionic prostheses rely on preprogrammed robotic commands instead of the user’s brain signals.
—Lizette Ortega, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
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