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the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune
a country known for the humanity of its liberal immigration policy
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Recent Examples of humanity
Jessica Hooten Wilson, a humanities professor, and her husband had managed to find shelter at a hotel an hour away.
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Corina Knoll, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Such early-stage technology might not mark significant progress toward curing cancer, solving the climate crisis, or other ways the start-up has claimed AI might benefit humanity as a whole.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
None of these measures are perfect fixes; all of them and more will be necessary to clean up the environmental mess humanity has spent the entirety of the industrial age making.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
Culture is a function of our evolving humanity, and music will also be the guiding star defining, communicating and celebrating our culture.
—Ron Hart, SPIN, 9 Dec. 2024
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Corina Knoll, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Such early-stage technology might not mark significant progress toward curing cancer, solving the climate crisis, or other ways the start-up has claimed AI might benefit humanity as a whole.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
None of these measures are perfect fixes; all of them and more will be necessary to clean up the environmental mess humanity has spent the entirety of the industrial age making.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
Culture is a function of our evolving humanity, and music will also be the guiding star defining, communicating and celebrating our culture.
—Ron Hart, SPIN, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for humanity
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In this enigmatic world, 39 women and one young girl are kept in an underground room guarded by armed men.Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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My character, Jessi, is trapped in her own world, and she’s had everything that she’s wanted.Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
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The braided and beaded trinkets are woven with messages of kindness, song lyrics or inside jokes among her devotees, who cluster in venue aisles and interminable merchandise lines at concerts to trade as part of their own secret society.Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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One act of kindness and then to have that dream and that goal to be able to help others and do one step at a time to get there.Gabriel Kinder and Allie Torgan, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024
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The clip shows the dog waiting outside a door for its owner to appear, followed by the moment that has people talking.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Sheriff Robert Luna of Los Angeles County said that about 18,000 people were in the mandatory or voluntary evacuation zones.Corina Knoll, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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The wave of sympathy toward Mangione and hostility toward CEOs sparked debate about how a set of Americans had come to cheer, or at least condone, wishes of violence hurled toward corporate executives.Max Zahn, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2024
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Online sellers, looking to cash in on the sympathies that some have expressed for Mangione, have drawn criticism.Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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But because the additives has not been found to cause cancer for humans, the FDA has not taken action to ban it from food.Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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Back in 2012, Panda’s team found that mice feeding in an eight-hour window weighed 20% less than mice consuming the same food throughout the day, which inspired research in humans.Matt Fuchs, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
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As practitioners of empathy and compassion, associates are unbridled to become magnets for bringing out the best in others around them.Chip Bell, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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Our brothers and sisters in crisis deserve our compassion and understanding, not violence.Cheyanne M. Daniels, The Hill, 9 Dec. 2024
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However, sometimes salmonellosis can result in more serious ailments, such as blood infections, heart inflammation, joint stiffness, muscle pain, eye irritation and urinary tract symptoms.Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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Guillermo really was the beating heart of the show — literally!Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Humanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humanity. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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