How to Use organic in a Sentence
- This neighborhood is an organic part of the city.
- He thinks of the city not as a collection of different neighborhoods but as an organic whole.
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Feed them fresh organic food stay away from dog food.
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Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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Rooms are stocked with bowls, a pet bed, organic treats, waste bags, and a toy.
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Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
16 Feb. 2026
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Amend the hole with organic matter if your soil is slow to drain.
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Sj McShane,
Martha Stewart,
27 June 2026
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Soft organic draping played a key role this week.
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Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
17 Sep. 2025
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Use an organic mulch like pine straw or shredded leaves.
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Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
7 Nov. 2025
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Any organic mulch will work, but leaves may attract slugs.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
31 Oct. 2025
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Make sure to use organic, well-draining soil.
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Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
10 Jan. 2026
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The ice machine had organic mold-like buildup.
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Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
february 13,
Sacbee.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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The one is organic, the other not.
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Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
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That felt organic to who Vince was and his story.
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Giana Levy,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2025
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Don't add organic matter to your pots.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2026
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Trying to make that feel organic and selfless was the feat of the scene for me.
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Barry Levitt,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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The organic shape makes this feel special.
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Natalie Cantell,
InStyle,
31 Mar. 2026
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At the same time, organic net sales rose 3 percent.
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Kathryn Hopkins,
Footwear News,
30 Oct. 2025
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The shape is organic and sculptural, yet not too much of a statement.
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Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
26 Feb. 2026
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The wooden slats and straight edges give a modern organic look to these chairs.
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Erica Reagle,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 July 2023
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Eat organic, unless the food came from more than a hundred miles away.
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Alison Myers,
The New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2023
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At some of those sites, the amount of organic matter in the soil has more than doubled.
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Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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This will add roots and organic matter back into the soil.
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Helena Madden,
Martha Stewart,
25 May 2026
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Use a rich, well-draining, loamy soil mix rich in organic matter.
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Sj McShane,
Martha Stewart,
9 Feb. 2026
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Many of the sculptures feel organic, as if they had been shaped by water rather than hands.
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Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
8 June 2026
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So there’s a lot of pressure to make that video good and organic, and to perform well for them.
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Jodie Valade,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Mar. 2024
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And while there is an awards campaign around the movie, there is something about it that feels very organic.
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Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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Down the road, Poland’s organic cow pastures died.
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Emily Cureton Cook,
ProPublica,
26 June 2026
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Pleasant Grove’s grains are organic and small-scale.
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Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
13 May 2026
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Often the company moves as one organic mass, a school of fish or flock of birds.
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Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
1 Mar. 2026
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Its organic palette can vary from warm grays and deep anthracites to rich browns and, more rarely, milky whites.
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Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
7 Mar. 2026
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His discovery for the love of dance has been such an organic journey.
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Heide Janssen,
Oc Register,
15 Mar. 2026
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In the past the advice was to fill with good compost or soil full of organics.
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Jeff Lowenfels,
Anchorage Daily News,
3 Aug. 2023
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The metal and non-organics found in a person’s body are screened out.
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Saja Hindi,
The Denver Post,
16 Dec. 2019
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The poisons, traps, organics and predator pee don't stop them for long.
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Jeanne Huber,
Washington Post,
1 Dec. 2019
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The idea is to make sure organics don’t wind up in landfills and boost methane emissions.
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Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
29 Mar. 2026
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And what these do is form complexes with organics and phosphates.
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Emma Gometz,
Scientific American,
19 June 2026
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And, adding organics — kelp is great — and microbes to your soil will make the pool that can be utilized by the plant much greater.
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Jeff Lowenfels,
Anchorage Daily News,
7 Apr. 2023
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These have information about the salt content of the ocean and some of the organics that are present there.
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Eric Betz,
Discover Magazine,
24 Jan. 2018
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What happens to the organics and other stuff collected each week?
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Terri Daxon,
Oc Register,
28 May 2026
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Trees taller than 6 feet should be cut in half and placed in the organics cart with the lid closed, or set curbside next to the landfill waste cart.
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Linda McIntosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Dec. 2025
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But food is a sluggish, low-margin sector, and even once-hot categories like organics have slowed.
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Matthew Boyle,
Bloomberg.com,
10 May 2020
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Creating all-new routes just to fetch organics would be expensive and snarl traffic.
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Emily S. Rueb,
New York Times,
2 June 2017
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In terms of textiles, the term organic refers to how the material is grown and treated from start to finish.
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Jamie Weissman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Aug. 2022
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Farmers have turned to organics to get paid more for their products without as many price fluctuations.
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Rick Barrett,
jsonline.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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The organic initially has the upper hand.
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Noel Murray,
Vulture,
24 Sep. 2025
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Cleary said new contracts signed by all the haulers give them some discretion about how to handle organics recycling.
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David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2023
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What about those who don’t bother to separate the organics or recyclables?
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Terri Daxon,
Oc Register,
28 May 2026
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For years, farmers have turned to organics to get paid more for their products without as many price fluctuations.
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Rick Barrett,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
23 Mar. 2018
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Trumbo, in particular, would like to search for any organics that might have spilled onto the surface along with the salt.
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Shannon Hall,
Scientific American,
12 June 2019
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During this time, corn labelled organic was often worth twice as much as conventional corn.
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Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
8 Nov. 2021
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Still, the transition to organic can be financially out of reach.
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Christiana Freitag,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Saturn moon Enceladus is first alien 'water world' with complex organics.
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Fox News,
28 June 2018
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Trees taller than 6 feet must be cut in half and placed in green organics cart with the lid closed for collection or if necessary placed next to green waste cart.
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Linda McIntosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Dec. 2025
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The agency detected volatile organics in the air, but not at dangerous levels.
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Cameron Knight,
Cincinnati.com,
12 Dec. 2018
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The Stardust recovery mission found organics and glycine - one of the simplest amino acids.
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Jamie Seidel,
Fox News,
28 June 2018
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Also, volatile organics are common on KBOs, but the team did not find them on Nereid.
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Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
20 May 2026
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The bad news, McKay said, is that all missions to Mars have tried to find organics using this heat method.
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Ashley May,
USA TODAY,
12 July 2018
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Each household may receive up to three recycling and organics carts at no additional charge.
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Camryn Dadey,
Sacbee.com,
24 June 2026
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The sediments around the wood are dark in color and full of organics (roots, small pieces of wood, seeds, and pollen) are all remarking well-preserved.
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Ben Raines | [email protected],
AL.com,
28 July 2017
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This brand stands by their promise to keep their libido gummies full organic so that everyone can enjoy them without feeling guilty.
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Amber Smith,
Discover Magazine,
15 Dec. 2022
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And the Lana record and Folklore are very different kinds of organic than this Bleachers rec-ord.
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Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
16 June 2021
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