homo

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Noun
  • The Wimbledon men's final between three-time Grand Slam winner Sinner and Alcaraz (a five-time Grand Slam champ) comes less than two months after Alcaraz stormed back from a huge deficit to win the French Open in five sets on June 8.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
  • Take Eric, a man in his late sixties who has served some thirty-five years and will never be released.
    Brooke Allen, New Yorker, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • The decision to stick around with the hominids proved lucrative.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 May 2025
  • The spacecraft named after that ancient hominid is also exploring fossils, in the sense that asteroids are leftovers from the dawn of the solar system and can tell us much about Earth's origin, just as Lucy the fossil can tell us about human evolution.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Most of the excess heat that humans have trapped on Earth has been soaked up by the oceans, and warmer ocean water combined with warmer air in the atmosphere makes large, wet storms more likely.
    Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 7 July 2025
  • Voila, the cost and effort by humans drop to nothing.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Still, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that about 34 people a day in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes — that’s one person every 42 minutes.
    Josh Max, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • And while a normal person will just digest that and process it, an allergic person actually sees this as a foreign threat.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • Again, such symptoms are quite non-specific and can represent many different conditions ranging from too much stress in your life to sleep apnea to depression to long Covid to cancer.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • In sport, as in life, the idea of failure is often cast as a villain—something to be denied, delayed or danced around.
    Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • The fish will also serve as scaly ambassadors for Biosphere 2's many visitors (more than 3 million since 1991, according to the organization), who will weave through the desert landscape.
    Alina Hartounian, NPR, 7 July 2025
  • Above it all: This photo of a shark hunting fish off the coast of Long Island took top honors in the International Aerial Photographer of the Year competition.
    Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • There’s going to be a steady rotation of guys getting snaps along the line.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 8 July 2025
  • And the coolest part for me, coming to Columbus, was switching roles from Boston and now being the guy who is counted on to work with younger guys.
    Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Her portrayal of Diana gives this Amazonian princess the proper regal bearing, but Gadot proves to have a wonderfully wry sense of humor as the character continues to be amazed at how weird male mortals are.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
  • To make amends, Dream must confront longtime friends and foes, gods, monsters, and mortals.
    Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025
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“Homo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homo. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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