Example Sentences

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These bowls go by many names, but they are ontologically distinct from the slop bowl.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 2026

My kids are not in some ontologically different category than poor kids.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2021

You’re ontologically cool, and the rest of us are just very not.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2021

Mothers might sometimes feel hostile toward their babies, but not all mothers give birth to ontologically unknowable goblin children.

From The New Yorker • May 11, 2019

“It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures.”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green