How to Use entity in a Sentence

entity

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  • One division of the company was broken off as a separate entity.
  • Nielsen is among the entities that have struck an alliance with EDO.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
  • At the same time, Mr. Bratt (Justin Long) inherits the spooky abode and gets caught up in the dark entities that still lurk there 30 years later.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Hamas has been a governing entity in the Gaza Strip for sixteen years now.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The entities are separate and the latter is the hedge fund Griffin founded.
    — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 7 June 2023
  • The court papers stated that the bankrupt entity is based in New Jersey.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • There are entities that are set up to provide staffing during a health care work stoppage.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The stores and other entities will need to publicly post confirmation of their registry with the state.
    — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Now, they’re often owned by unknown entities that rent them from afar.
    — Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • And then those entities will still try to compete with each other and try to gain advantage and gain market share.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Meta was introduced in 2021 to serve as the main company brand for all entities owned by Facebook.
    — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • There's a lot of entities out there that don't always have people's best interest at heart.
    — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Perhaps no entity did more to spread the practice than the Pullman Company.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • But the two entities took it one step further with a complete refresh of the Palazzo’s beach club in nearby Marmorata, called the Clubhouse by the Sea.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 13 June 2023
  • Once the costs are known, the participating entities will have the option of withdrawing from the program.
    — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • One of the dangers of AI is its ability to be weaponized by corporate entities or governments to restrict the rights of the public.
    — Gabriele Regalbuto, Fox News, 16 June 2023
  • In the mid-1980s, Aruba became an autonomous entity of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
    — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Is there perhaps some shadowy unnamed entity defining the limits of what Martha Stewart can and can’t eat?
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The collection of these three entities – along with the assistance of Organized Noize – laid the groundwork for the group’s most ambitious album up to that point.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Hip-hop is also one of the entities responsible for the largest growth in Black millionaires (and a few billionaires) in this country.
    — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Trumpism has expressed and explored itself through both of these entities.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The explorations have the goal of a new and unified organization, the two entities stated Tuesday.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • My mother was attacked (some say possessed) by an entity.
    — Julie Jordan, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Foreign nationals and non-US entities are barred from buying such ads.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 29 Aug. 2023
  • That entity, called One San Diego, was dissolved after Faulconer left office.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2023
  • Microsoft is a major investor in OpenAI, with a 49 percent stake in the for-profit entity that the nonprofit board controls.
    — Alex Heath, The Verge, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Johnson has also attacked the idea of social services, claiming that the only entity entitled to provide care is the church, not the government.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Karya is registered as a nonprofit in the U.S. that controls two entities in India: one nonprofit and one for-profit.
    — Time, 27 July 2023
  • In part, the legislation grew out of a state Supreme Court case that barred public entities from promoting bonds but provided few guidelines.
    — Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The two entities, who need to agree on a new labor contract by midnight on July 31 to avoid a strike, are each preparing for what would be the largest single employer strike in U.S. history.
    — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 18 July 2023

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