Used in a Sentence

lemming-like

How to use lemming-like in a sentence. Live example sentences for lemming-like pulled from indexed public discussions.

Editorial note

I mean, not that I've taken advantage of this lemming-like behavior in modern culture or anything.

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Quick take

I mean, not that I've taken advantage of this lemming-like behavior in modern culture or anything.

Example sentences

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I mean, not that I've taken advantage of this lemming-like behavior in modern culture or anything.

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Strong AI, automation, and resource recycling might head off a lemming-like bust in the next 100 years.

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This teaches the workforce to be more lemming-like, in order to be hireable.

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The real problem is obvious to me; the manufacturers, particularly those in Western countries, have been on a 20 year long lemming-like off-shoring race to Taiwan and S.

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They fuse this into the desire to confirm to the lives of their parents, and justify the continued lemming-like walk towards the suffering and pain and disease of aging.

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This seems almost comically lemming-like.

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It should be incredibly concerning to all of us that such a small group of lemming-like people should have such an enormously outsized role in both allocating capital and running our lives.

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On the other hand, it is very difficult for automotive companies to diverge from their peers, as we saw with their universal lemming-like cancellation of chip orders in 2020.

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The vast majority for this and similar basic errors in UI/UX can be laid at the feet of the lemming-like trend towards mobile design even when it is not appropriate, especially for desktop applications.

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As is the lemming-like rush toward remote functions for everything.

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There used to be a gentleman who gave the mandatory safety briefing before taking guests from Lundy Island by helicopter (the only travel option in winter months) who would make the point that if one person inflates their vest, the other passengers would lemming-like inflate their vests and then you suddenly find the cabin is filled with 5 or 6 inflated people that have no chance of getting out of the door.

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The headline you need is 'Pick the Right First Project to Go DevOps On.' Headlines and titles of the form 'Verbing the noun' have become very fashionable over the last couple of decades because they five a sense of immediacy and action, but lemming-like adherence to this convention will take you right off a semantic cliff and onto the ugly rocks of neologism.

Quote examples

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"Influencers" are a somewhat more ethical alternative that takes advantage of humans' lemming-like nature.

2

(Probably peaking at 10.6/Snow Leopard.) This character has been systematically removed from the system since then, with successive updates since Apple began, lemming-like, to follow some "thought" "leader" in "design" believing that flatness in UI design was somehow "modern" and innovative.

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How do you use lemming-like in a sentence?

I mean, not that I've taken advantage of this lemming-like behavior in modern culture or anything.