Example Sentences

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“No one has contributed more seminally to this new way of thinking about the world.”

From Scientific American • May 6, 2020

It hardly feels like a coincidence that the 808 emerged from Japan the same year as another seminally bizarre early-’80s creation, Pac-Man.

From Slate • Dec. 16, 2016

Season Three of the seminally important and largely forgotten series Hill Street Blues begins with an episode called “Trial By Fury.”

From Forbes • Mar. 13, 2015

Therefore also the souls of animals seminally generated are produced by the seminal power.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

On the contrary, The power in the semen is to the animal seminally generated, as the power in the elements of the world is to animals produced from these elements—for instance by putrefaction.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint