How to Use nonhuman in a Sentence
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In doing so, the monkeys became the first of their genus and the fourth of all nonhuman primates to enter the Stone Age, so to speak.
— Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 13 July 2018 -
Who knows, maybe in a few years’ time a nonhuman participant will take part in the IMO for the first time—and maybe even win gold.
— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024 -
The creatures, which look like scaly anteaters, are the most trafficked nonhuman animals in the world.
— Marc Santora, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2019 -
Zelman would be the first to admit he’s an unlikely bard of the nonhuman world.
— Jordan G. Teicher, The New Republic, 7 Jan. 2020 -
Some parrot species, in fact, can attain feats equal to those of nonhuman primates.
— Onur Güntürkün, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020 -
Comparing Ata's genome to the genomes of a chimpanzee and monkey ruled out a nonhuman origin.
— Ben Guarino, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018 -
Comparing Ata’s genome to the genomes of a chimpanzee and monkey ruled out a nonhuman origin.
— Ben Guarino, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018 -
But sometimes the leap is from a nonhuman critter into a human.
— David Quammen, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2012 -
Not long ago, the idea that any nonhuman animal deserved moral concern would have seemed very strange.
— WIRED, 27 June 2023 -
Their work emerges in a class of animal research that uses AI to translate the languages of nonhuman species.
— Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024 -
By gnawing away at the old view that nonhuman animals simply serve as food, such work can counter anthropogenic views of the past.
— Paige Madison, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023 -
Macaques are one of three modern nonhuman primate species that use stone tools (the other two are chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys).
— Zach Zorich, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023 -
Once full of animals, Paris emptied of much nonhuman life.
— Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 27 July 2023 -
Lake points out that these quirks don’t align with the kinds of words children learn most quickly, which suggests the model has nonhuman idiosyncrasies.
— Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024 -
Yet among nonhuman animals, the creatures that cause more American deaths than any other are bees and wasps.
— N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 4 May 2020 -
The cast of characters is nonhuman, of course, and none of them have perceptions, motivations or habits in the ordinary sense.
— Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017 -
If not, researchers may need to begin with nonhuman studies, Hubbard said.
— Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023 -
Although researchers have observed signs of menopause in some captive nonhuman primates, this is the first time it has been documented in primates in the wild.
— Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2023 -
How are nonhuman conceptions of time, such as moss time, connected to justice?
— Hazlitt, 8 Mar. 2023 -
Mingle with nonhuman locals at the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge.
— Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2023 -
Supply chains are often talked about in nonhuman corporate terms, but they are made up of people whose livelihoods depend on them.
— 1000 Landscapes For 1 Billion People, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024 -
The last one is unique to parrots and humans, which might explain why nonhuman primates like monkeys do not spontaneously bust a move to music.
— Katie Camero, Science | AAAS, 8 July 2019 -
Billye reminds us that there is a vast array of nonhuman life that is worthy of emulation.
— BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019 -
Exactly five years later, the first nonhuman primate was conceived in a petri dish — a baboon named E.T. for Embryo Transfer.
— Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2023 -
The seven scientists here document the impacts of global warming on the nonhuman world.
— Catrin Einhorn Thea Traff, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023 -
For 2,000 years, all nonhuman animals have been legal things who lack the capacity for any legal rights.
— Karin Brulliard, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017 -
The team found that the Neandertals and modern humans in their sample had a group of Streptococcus bacteria in their mouths that the nonhuman primates didn’t have.
— Kate Wong, Scientific American, 25 June 2024 -
Copyright law wasn’t designed to reach nonhuman actors, Howell said.
— Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023 -
Even the community’s nonhuman residents—from dogs to chickens to a family’s backyard oak tree—exhibited strange symptoms.
— Longreads, 2 Aug. 2024 -
Researchers have even identified similar patterns in nonhuman apes.
— Deena Mousa, Scientific American, 12 July 2024
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