How to Use intelligent life in a Sentence

intelligent life

noun
  • Perhaps intelligent life is just really hard to get to in the first place.
    Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 18 May 2023
  • Could an earth-like planet that had intelligent life survive?
    Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The mysterious transmission seemed to be a message from intelligent life trying to contact Earth—as it was designed to be.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
  • Throughout the opera, the colonists meet intelligent life on the new planet, and navigate the challenges and pleasures of mutual coexistence.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • This might also be the case for any other intelligent life trying to communicate.
    Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
  • That’s not to say there isn’t other intelligent life unfolding somewhere in this vast universe, trying to communicate with Earth.
    Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Their report landed just under a year later, and again the findings were unsatisfying—at least for people looking for intelligent life off the planet.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Although the film takes place in a number of different realities — one in which humans have hot-dog fingers, another in which there’s no intelligent life whatsoever — its most important one is the universe where the world can be saved with a hug.
    Vulture, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The institute’s president, Bill Diamond, said Dawood is humble by nature and fascinated by the question of whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe.
    Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
  • The institute conducts research in a variety of fields related to astrobiology, astronomy, and space science, with a primary focus on detecting signals or signs of intelligent life in the universe.
    Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Yep, an entire scientific organization that seeks to find other intelligent life in the universe actually exists.
    Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023

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