Example Sentences

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The finiteness of this supply distinguishes materials from energy.

From Scientific American • Dec. 19, 2022

"As we learn to repent and confess, as we embrace our mortality and our finiteness, we are not left in our brokenness."

From Fox News • Mar. 20, 2022

But there is a finiteness to the moment because of Black Widow’s death in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2021

Bezos thinks that space colonisation is urgent because of the finiteness of energy and resources.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2019

Possessed by the thirst for absoluteness, he vindicated the "infinity" of God and the soul by banishing all the "finiteness" of sense into a limbo of illusion.

From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)