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Recent Examples of nonhuman
And partial conversion still helps our hearts, our planet and mostly its nonhuman animals.
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David G. Allan, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
Reports from rescue missions, Inuit in the area and subsequent forensic and archaeological work on human and nonhuman remains have since pieced together part of the story, which includes ships stuck in winter ice, food gone bad, a desperate trip overland, and the likelihood of cannibalism.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
Even the area’s nonhuman residents—from pets to local wildlife—have shown unexplainable symptoms.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 25 July 2024
After years of work improving the vaccine’s design and testing its safety in several nonhuman species, the first European trial was held on a military base in Belgium.
—Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
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David G. Allan, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
Reports from rescue missions, Inuit in the area and subsequent forensic and archaeological work on human and nonhuman remains have since pieced together part of the story, which includes ships stuck in winter ice, food gone bad, a desperate trip overland, and the likelihood of cannibalism.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
Even the area’s nonhuman residents—from pets to local wildlife—have shown unexplainable symptoms.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 25 July 2024
After years of work improving the vaccine’s design and testing its safety in several nonhuman species, the first European trial was held on a military base in Belgium.
—Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonhuman
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In two cases from Nepal, initiated in 2012 and 2014, the U.N. Human Rights Committee — an independent body that monitors compliance with international human rights law — found that cruel, inhuman treatment of human remains amounted to cruel, inhuman treatment of the family of the deceased.—
Tyler McBrien,
The Dial,
28 Jan. 2025
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The terrible beauty in his films usually came at a steep cost, in human or, rather, inhuman cruelty, violence, pathology.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In his speech, Krishna also pointed to Shannon’s work building robotic mice that solved mazes as an example of his enjoyment of play within his research.—
Ayesha Javed,
TIME,
10 Feb. 2025
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The Wrong Trousers centers on suspicious penguin Feathers McGraw, who moves in with the duo and hatches a nefarious plan for the robotic Techno Trousers that Wallace has invented to walk Gromit.—
Ryan Gajewski,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Feb. 2025
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Yet today’s LLMs are distinctly subhuman in their ability to absorb and understand large quantities of information.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
20 Dec. 2024
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Cinematographers Alejandro Chávez and Trevor Roach shoot the underworld where the victims work and live with limited light sources creating a drab, oppressive environment that highlight the subhuman conditions they are subjected to.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
30 Aug. 2024
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“Nonhuman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonhuman. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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