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  • Little wonder that we have come to think of languages as creatures, cherished verbal life-forms.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In any case, since we are imagining that English borrows only the prefix concerning objects or life-forms of in-between status, and not the entire Swahili grammatical system of noun classifications, this detail need not worry us.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In any case, since we are imagining that English borrows only the prefix concerning objects or life-forms of in-between status, and not the entire Swahili grammatical system of noun classifications, this detail need not worry us.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Little wonder that we have come to think of languages as creatures, cherished verbal life-forms.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • “Water is the single most important component of almost all known life-forms,” Spock said.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • And so there are many life-forms in the universe but on Earth we are constrained by our bias of carbon and organic chemistry because organic chemistry works brilliantly here.

    Lee Cronin: 'Aliens could be made from iron' 2011

  • It is my sincere wish and struggle with my art, of course, that technology could prevent the final battle, Armageddon, disastrous not only for the human race but or all life-forms.

    Lia Petridis Maiello: 'I Read, I Think, I Paint' Lia Petridis Maiello 2011

  • I am willing to bet that there were some non-biological life-forms present on Earth.

    Lee Cronin: 'Aliens could be made from iron' 2011

  • It is my sincere wish and struggle with my art, of course, that technology could prevent the final battle, Armageddon, disastrous not only for the human race but or all life-forms.

    Lia Petridis Maiello: 'I Read, I Think, I Paint' Lia Petridis Maiello 2011

  • Humans harnessed other life-forms on Earth, to provide transport.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

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