How to Use intelligent life in a Sentence

intelligent life

noun
  • Perhaps intelligent life is just really hard to get to in the first place.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 18 May 2023
  • Could an earth-like planet that had intelligent life survive?
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Still, what kind of intelligent life form wouldn’t want to see a sunrise on another world?
    — Matthew Hutson, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Make intelligent life decisions, and everything in your life will flow.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • It was studied for 17 hours using low frequencies, but no trace of intelligent life was found.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
  • This might also be the case for any other intelligent life trying to communicate.
    — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Some evidence suggests humans might be the only intelligent life in the universe.
    — Gabriela Radulescu, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
  • No evidence has been produced of intelligent life beyond Earth.
    — CBS News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • In 1980, Earth is contacted by intelligent life lightyears away.
    — Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Maybe there is something special about life, especially intelligent life.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Someone watching Earth from this vantage point would have no way of predicting that intelligent life would someday emerge on this water-rich world.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Maybe there’s some unavoidable barrier between the origin of intelligent life and said life setting off to explore the galaxy.
    — ArsTechnica, 26 Mar. 2025
  • So for humanity, this will not be within our near future, but for other intelligent life, this could be a possibility.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The percentage who believe intelligent life exists on other planets has become more widespread in recent years.
    — Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • The mysterious transmission seemed to be a message from intelligent life trying to contact Earth—as it was designed to be.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
  • Is plate tectonics necessary for the evolution of intelligent life?
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Since that time, higher numbers of men, women and people across age groups and education levels now believe in the existence of intelligent life.
    — Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • That’s not to say there isn’t other intelligent life unfolding somewhere in this vast universe, trying to communicate with Earth.
    — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • In the often sterile cosmos of the Hollywood space opera, the mere acknowledgment of human horniness is a sign of intelligent life.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The evolution of intelligent life around red dwarf stars is likely to be an uphill slog, due to the demands needed to jumpstart oxygenic photosynthesis.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Their report landed just under a year later, and again the findings were unsatisfying—at least for people looking for intelligent life off the planet.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Throughout the opera, the colonists meet intelligent life on the new planet, and navigate the challenges and pleasures of mutual coexistence.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • When looking for extraterrestrial intelligent life, how crucial is finding a planet in a habitable zone?
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Paleontologists who study earth’s ancient fossil record might not seem to be the obvious choice when asking about the prevalence of intelligent life in the cosmos.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • But thought experiments about the lives of aliens can also tell us something about potential trajectories for intelligent life on Earth.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 5 Aug. 2025
  • But those who don't believe in intelligent life think the more likely explanation is human or natural activity.
    — Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • The astronomers are part of an international group called Breakthrough Listen who are hunting for intelligent life in the cosmos.
    — Eric Lagatta, AZCentral.com, 12 Jan. 2026
  • These signals are considered intentional and only produced by intelligent life.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2024
  • Their calculations also have important implications for the search for intelligent life on other planets.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The engineering of intelligent life using lifeless substances has long existed in our imaginations.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2024

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