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Recent Examples of nonhuman
And workers in many fields fear that AI – or robots, or other nonhuman hands – might sweep in to replace them.
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Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 18 May 2025
The motif of changelings—of fairies taking a human child and leaving a nonhuman child in its place—comes up throughout the story.
—Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
Scientists earlier showed that Ronan, a resident of the Long Marine Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was the first nonhuman mammal who could be trained to keep a beat, including moving in time with music.
—Gennaro Tomma, New York Times, 1 May 2025
In the empty, evening-quiet, and dim room, the metallic, nonhuman voice sounded like something from the other side:
Ingrid is dead.
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
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Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 18 May 2025
The motif of changelings—of fairies taking a human child and leaving a nonhuman child in its place—comes up throughout the story.
—Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
Scientists earlier showed that Ronan, a resident of the Long Marine Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was the first nonhuman mammal who could be trained to keep a beat, including moving in time with music.
—Gennaro Tomma, New York Times, 1 May 2025
In the empty, evening-quiet, and dim room, the metallic, nonhuman voice sounded like something from the other side:
Ingrid is dead.
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonhuman
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This playing out in live-action would seem to require a huge budget, given that the entire series is essentially fighting giant monsters with inhuman powers.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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For the show’s robot protagonist, following its own inhuman desires is a much better option.—
Emma Stefansky,
The Atlantic,
5 July 2025
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So marketers are faced with the challenge of adapting once again to a new reality, where buying isn’t driven by emotional response but by algorithms and robotic logic.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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In a warehouse setting, this means robotic arms could inspect the contents of packages moving down a conveyor belt without unpacking them.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
13 July 2025
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Yes, but: They were largely treated as subhuman and even lynched across the U.S. Here are five legal challenges that proved pivotal in demanding equality.—
Shawna Chen,
Axios,
22 May 2025
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Then a twist of fate and tragedy casts the subhuman nature of this treatment in a fresh light, and Alma, with a terrible new understanding, does what grown women for time immemorial have done.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
14 May 2025
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“Nonhuman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonhuman. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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