: an intoxicating juice from a plant of disputed identity that was used in ancient India as an offering to the gods and as a drink of immortality by worshippers in Vedic ritual and worshipped in personified form as a Vedic god
plural somata
ˈsō-mə-tə 
or somas
or somas
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Evie Muir, refinery29.com, 5 Sep. 2024
One that understands that, indeed, our psyches and somas are intertwined.
—Hannah Zeavin, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
The soma that Huxley imagined in 1932 bears a striking resemblance to a certain real-world drug today: marijuana.
—Blaine Cooper, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
The lower classes do all the menial jobs, and are issued a dose of soma at the end of each workday.
—Blaine Cooper, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
In one dramatic episode from Brave New World, John the Savage, a character born to human parents and raised among humans who live apart from the World State’s wiles, attempts to foment a rebellion among a compliant class of his fellow citizens by depriving them of their precious soma.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 25 Oct. 2020
The MaddAddam books have some echoes of Brave New World, where the BlyssPluss pill is a bit like Huxley’s soma.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
All of their problems are solved with their daily dose of soma.
—Blaine Cooper, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
This work presents a planner that can automatically find an optimal assembly sequence for a dual-arm robot to assemble the soma blocks.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Mar. 2020
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Noun
Somatics refers to practices that centre the body, also known as the ‘soma’.
—Evie Muir, refinery29.com, 5 Sep. 2024
One that understands that, indeed, our psyches and somas are intertwined.
—Hannah Zeavin, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
The soma that Huxley imagined in 1932 bears a striking resemblance to a certain real-world drug today: marijuana.
—Blaine Cooper, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
The lower classes do all the menial jobs, and are issued a dose of soma at the end of each workday.
—Blaine Cooper, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
In one dramatic episode from Brave New World, John the Savage, a character born to human parents and raised among humans who live apart from the World State’s wiles, attempts to foment a rebellion among a compliant class of his fellow citizens by depriving them of their precious soma.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 25 Oct. 2020
The MaddAddam books have some echoes of Brave New World, where the BlyssPluss pill is a bit like Huxley’s soma.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
All of their problems are solved with their daily dose of soma.
—Blaine Cooper, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
This work presents a planner that can automatically find an optimal assembly sequence for a dual-arm robot to assemble the soma blocks.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Mar. 2020
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Soma
2 of 2 trademark
So·ma
ˈsō-mə
—used for a preparation of carisoprodol
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