nonhuman

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Recent Examples of nonhuman Additionally, no fossil records indicate that any nonhuman hominids ever lived in North America. Matt Robison, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025 Many nonhuman species can do these things too. Leticia Fanucchi, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2025 Expanding recognition of nonhuman persons in legal and cultural contexts. Photovogue, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2025 The Alpha Genesis test facility specializes in nonhuman primate research for biomedical research. Rebekah Riess, CNN, 25 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nonhuman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonhuman
Adjective
  • These are the athletes of eSports, and their competitions and inhuman precision prove to be just as thrilling.
    Adam Rumanek, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The idea the director had proposed to Laura, once they’d been put in touch by a photography student of his at Parsons for whom Laura had done a bit of writing, was to shoot the film from the vantage point of an inhuman and ubiquitous force.
    Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Boston Dynamics is at it again, wowing us with some seriously cool robotic moves.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Or mostly robotic, at least—the fruit flies the researchers used would occasionally go their own way, despite strong inducements to stay with the program.
    John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The campaign was threaded with a drumbeat suggestion that homeless people are a subhuman plague.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The individuals and groups committing these acts are subhuman.
    Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2025

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“Nonhuman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonhuman. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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