How to Use ontology in a Sentence

ontology

noun
  • But the very ontology of your album is a slap in the face to the two-minute pop song.
    — Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2025
  • The ontology evolves as the business evolves.
    — Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • The ire for candy corn is cut from the same stalk as the online obsession with sandwich ontology.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2022
  • In a very broad sense these disciplines push against our conceptions of ontology.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2010
  • Building an accurate and thorough ontology is at the heart of this endeavor.
    — Rob Buller, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • Cyborg ontology is the brain-meld between self and computerized leg.
    — The Cyborg Jillian Weise, Wired, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Kennedy also adds ontologies are becoming popular again.
    — Hessie Jones, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The simple answer is knowledge graphs, ontologies and context engines combined with connectors.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • As an art form in which human beings are incarnated, drama is a natural conduit for metaphysics and ontology.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Most firms are still working toward implementing a central data fabric with a common ontology.
    — Chris Perry, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • This may include knowledge graphs, domain ontologies, vector stores, memory systems or other structures agents can reason over.
    — Deepak Khosla, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • But organizations that treat their ontology as a living thing build something with a very different ceiling than everyone else.
    — Urvish Parikh, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • To this very day, Lenat and his team continue to add terms (facts and concepts) to Cyc's ontology and explain the relationships between them via rules.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2021
  • This ontology is more fundamental than the frothy influencer economy.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • Emezi describes this elaborate ontology in raw, sensual terms, steeping us in the smells and sights of her mythic world with incantatory lines that bring the ineffable to life.
    — David Wright, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Their ontology layer may be the most differentiating feature of this solution.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • These acts reflect a different ontology of leadership grounded in trust, self-restraint, and the belief that honour is an essential character trait for high office.
    — Dave Winsborough, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
  • This plan, if successful, would build a common taxonomy and ontology that connects any piece of health data to any other for faster and more complete population analysis.
    — Peter Hovstadius, STAT, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Because of that though the suspicion of inauthenticity becomes part of the draw, like a world reoriented to the ontology of professional wrestling.
    — Emil Steiner, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Bleeding Edge thus marks Pynchon’s most overt confrontation with the collapse of ontology into information.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
  • In computer science this is called ontology, or the process of formally naming the types, properties and relationships between entities.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The result is a wildly original experience that moves beyond mere adaptation and tables fresh questions about cinema’s ontology.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Clinical concepts are intricately linked by a complex ontology that defines relationships between terms.
    — Michal Tzuchman Katz Md, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • But that would require buying many tickets and sitting through many, many hours of people translating medieval ontology into arch latter-day vernacular, saying what is essentially the same thing again and again and again.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2017
  • This time, Sumner elevated his speech to a higher level of abstraction to propound on the historical meaning and ontology of the Civil War.
    — Zaakir Tameez june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
  • Au’s is a book of deceptive simplicity, weaving profound questions of identity and ontology into the fabric of quotidian banality.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Pouring more telemetry into an agent without an ontology only accelerates hallucination.
    — Shailesh Manjrekar, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The very title of the exhibition, the first Conceptualist project to use photocopy as a medium, signals a deliberate equivocation over nothing less than the ontology of the art object.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 May 2025
  • Using an ontology model, consisting of multiple data sets that can be reused by different kinds of applications and for different uses, becomes a necessary step in data normalization.
    — Shaun Cooley, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • But when conducted best—including in Breville’s case, and despite Hoare’s insistence otherwise—design is more related to the philosophy of what things are, called ontology.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017

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