nonhuman

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Recent Examples of nonhuman The fact that there has been recovery of technology of nonhuman origin. Selome Hailu, Variety, 9 Mar. 2025 Her writing also asserts that words, often expressed in the Lakota language, are just as capable of fostering vital human and nonhuman connections. Melissa Ragain, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025 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 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
  • Elon Musk's company launched its 32nd robotic resupply mission to the ISS for NASA early Monday morning (April 21), sending a Dragon freighter aloft from Florida's Space Coast.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The idea is that combining cheap-to-make AUVs with their own heavy armaments that are equally cheap and linking them with an intelligent sonar network would create fleets of robotic subs able to engage enemy ships and submarines in numbers never before seen.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 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 1 May. 2025.

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