How to Use entity in a Sentence

entity

noun
  • One division of the company was broken off as a separate entity.
  • Since then, the cap has lifted and charter schools can receive authorization from other entities instead.
    Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The county is not the only entity in Dallas caught up in the recent mishandling of criminal justice data.
    Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • To stave that off, one of the entities that own the site filed for bankruptcy.
    Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Nielsen is among the entities that have struck an alliance with EDO.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The funds from those entities covered nearly 66% of the project’s cost.
    Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
  • Your loyalty has to be to the HOA as an entity, not who is leading it.
    Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2024
  • At the same time, Mr. Bratt (Justin Long) inherits the spooky abode and gets caught up in the dark entities that still lurk there 30 years later.
    Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Hamas has been a governing entity in the Gaza Strip for sixteen years now.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The entities are separate and the latter is the hedge fund Griffin founded.
    Rachel Shin, Fortune, 7 June 2023
  • The court papers stated that the bankrupt entity is based in New Jersey.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • From the very beginning, Grown-ish was a very distinct entity from Black-ish.
    Ronda Racha Penrice, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2024
  • There are entities that are set up to provide staffing during a health care work stoppage.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The stores and other entities will need to publicly post confirmation of their registry with the state.
    Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Now, they’re often owned by unknown entities that rent them from afar.
    Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • And then those entities will still try to compete with each other and try to gain advantage and gain market share.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Then there are other entities that validate those blocks and stamp them onto the chain.
    Brady Dale, Axios, 8 Aug. 2024
  • And now, each and every entity involved is working in sync.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 4 May 2023
  • The Fed, like all government entities, never lets a crisis go to waste.
    Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 4 May 2023
  • That’s more than a colony or even a city; at that point, Mars will become its own political entity.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023
  • Meta was introduced in 2021 to serve as the main company brand for all entities owned by Facebook.
    Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • There are a few entities that are involved in these types of transactions beside the IRA owner.
    Jason Craig, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • There's a lot of entities out there that don't always have people's best interest at heart.
    Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Perhaps no entity did more to spread the practice than the Pullman Company.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • But the two entities took it one step further with a complete refresh of the Palazzo’s beach club in nearby Marmorata, called the Clubhouse by the Sea.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 13 June 2023
  • Once the costs are known, the participating entities will have the option of withdrawing from the program.
    Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • One of the dangers of AI is its ability to be weaponized by corporate entities or governments to restrict the rights of the public.
    Gabriele Regalbuto, Fox News, 16 June 2023
  • In the mid-1980s, Aruba became an autonomous entity of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
    Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
  • However, when one of their father's patients (David Dastmalchian) transmits a fiendish entity into their home, the fractured family must come together to survive.
    Lia Beck, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
  • There was a brief period in late 2019 where the two entities reached an impasse about the future of the character in the MCU, and their agreement was temporarily called off.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024

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