orgone
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of orgone
C20: from org ( asm ) + ( horm ) one
Example Sentences
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The Food and Drug Administration questioned his claims about the orgone accumulator and believed that the device was a cover for more illicit activities.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2021
As for me, though, I’m off to America’s heartland to make my fortune selling orgone boxes.
From Slate • May 24, 2021
“My epitaph,” Mann joked to me, “will be that I was the first person to put a string quartet in an orgone box.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2018
Often Bellamy was alone, curled up inside the orgone box that Kenneth Noland had left in the gallery.
From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2016
He also retrospectively added his theory of the "orgone".
From The Guardian • May 1, 2013
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