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Recent Examples of hominid
Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2025
If the researchers can extend their findings to earlier spheroids found in Africa, from the Oldowan stone industry, then the balls could serve as some of the first evidence of hominid intelligence.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 May 2025
Researchers believe this event was a final trigger in making the Sahara a desert, maybe even driving early hominids out of Africa some 10 to 7 million years ago.
—David Bressan, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
Researchers also identified two tiny fragments of hominid skull as belonging to H. erectus, an ancient human ancestor.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2025
If the researchers can extend their findings to earlier spheroids found in Africa, from the Oldowan stone industry, then the balls could serve as some of the first evidence of hominid intelligence.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
Noun
The decision to stick around with the hominids proved lucrative.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 May 2025
Researchers believe this event was a final trigger in making the Sahara a desert, maybe even driving early hominids out of Africa some 10 to 7 million years ago.
—David Bressan, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hominid
Adjective
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The company has recently added a few humanoid robot developers to its client roster.—
Zinnia Lee,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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The model, which is the UK’s first humanoid robot for industrial use, is designed to perform complex tasks in logistics, retail and manufacturing.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That requires humans to choose regeneration over extraction.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The photo, shared to the r/Weird community, shows two distinct sets of small prints, eerily human-like, with long fingers, smudged onto a black shelf beneath rows of art and history books.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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Once upon a time, scholars thought that human evolution was a march of progress in which our forebears evolved in linear fashion from an apelike ancestor to a series of increasingly humanlike forms.—
Kate Wong,
Scientific American,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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For a person with asthma or COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or bronchitis and emphysema), this means coughing, wheezing, or a feeling of suffocation, or even a trip to the emergency room.—
Bill Frist,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Team president Chris Drury and coach Mike Sullivan addressed reporters Wednesday from the MSG Training Center for the first time in person since Sullivan’s May 8 introductory press conference.—
Vincent Z. Mercogliano,
New York Times,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This includes the eyeball alien that’s possessed the sheep, a rapidly growing Xenomorph, and large, flying bug-like creatures that have made a little hive for themselves.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Thousands of skeletal creatures were lying on bunks unable to move, while dead bodies were piled in heaps all around the camp, reeking of putrefaction.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The request also came on the same day a man drove a car into the gates of an FBI building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Sep. 2025
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Just why that’s the case— when the two men have such different political backgrounds and perspectives — continues to defy logic.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The scam allegedly raked in millions of dollars from more than 1,000 victims, who were primarily elderly individuals.—
Lynsey Eidell,
PEOPLE,
18 Sep. 2025
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During the upcoming hearing, parties are expected to discuss a motion that asks the court to dismiss all claims against the mobile home park and against Lopez as an individual.—
Sofi Zeman,
Kansas City Star,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Submit a photo and information about each fish to qualify.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Sep. 2025
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The menu is global and playful, yet reliable, with some classic North American restaurant staples (hummus, $21, fish tacos, $23 for two, and Cajun blackened chicken, $39) and some Asian and Latin American inspired dishes (sake glazed Chilean seabass, $51, truffle udon carbonara, $27).—
Roxana Popescu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Hominid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hominid. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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