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Recent Examples of nonhuman
Additionally, no fossil records indicate that any nonhuman hominids ever lived in North America.
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Matt Robison, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
The Alpha Genesis test facility specializes in nonhuman primate research for biomedical research.
—Rebekah Riess, CNN, 25 Jan. 2025
The result is an assemblage of sorts where blue-footed boobies, coral reefs and even bat guano play a leading role, illustrating the ways nonhuman actors and their attendant ecologies have survived human predation.
—Elizabeth Rush, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
None of this tells us that nonhuman apes can’t coöperate.
—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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Matt Robison, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
The Alpha Genesis test facility specializes in nonhuman primate research for biomedical research.
—Rebekah Riess, CNN, 25 Jan. 2025
The result is an assemblage of sorts where blue-footed boobies, coral reefs and even bat guano play a leading role, illustrating the ways nonhuman actors and their attendant ecologies have survived human predation.
—Elizabeth Rush, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
None of this tells us that nonhuman apes can’t coöperate.
—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonhuman
Adjective
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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
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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
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The lander's robotic drill and scoop collected 4.27 lbs (1.935 kilograms) of basaltic regolith from the SPA basin before returning it to Earth.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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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
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The campaign was threaded with a drumbeat suggestion that homeless people are a subhuman plague.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
Orlando Sentinel,
17 Mar. 2025
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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 16 Apr. 2025.
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