nonhuman

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Recent Examples of nonhuman None of this tells us that nonhuman apes can’t coöperate. Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024 In his rejection of a rigid empiricism, moreover, Kingsley left room for intuitive and imaginative approaches to nature, and indeed to science, and refused to draw a hard line between human and nonhuman experience, instead viewing all creatures as belonging to a spectrum with no sharp boundaries. Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025 All living things—human and nonhuman, massive and miniscule—are part of Earth, creating and coevolving over time. Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 12 Dec. 2024 Maybe so, considering that neuroscience research is increasingly suggesting that joy and positive emotions play a critical role in the health of both human and nonhuman animals. Kelly Lambert, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024 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
  • The Second Cup Coffee Company is launching Mozo, a robotic barista, in Beirut, enhancing efficiency and consistency in café service.
    Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Provided by a company named Honeybee Robotics, this device could be used as a cheaper alternative to other sample collection methods, such as robotic arms, on future planetary science missions.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 18 Mar. 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 24 Mar. 2025.

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