humankind
noun, singular or plural in construction
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folks, humanity, people, public, species, world
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But what if humankind, for some bizarre reason, decided to set all of them off at once? — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "What If We Blew Up All The World’s Nukes at Once?," 1 Apr. 2019 Sweatpants are humankind’s most derided clothing, especially now that fannypacks have become popular again. — Jason Gay, WSJ, "Today’s Smartly Dressed People Are Wearing Sweatpants," 21 Feb. 2019 And in exploring humankind's enduring search for love, nuanced gazes were a vital part of this season's story for designer Pierpaolo Piccioli. — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, "The Futuristic Way to Wear Colorful Eye Makeup, According to the Valentino Runway," 4 Mar. 2019 That love faces the ultimate test when Hiccup must come to terms with the fact his beloved Toothless and dragonkind must separate themselves from humankind for their own good. — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, "‘How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’: Third film soars with extraordinary visuals," 20 Feb. 2019 In this superb novel, time, like guilt, is a murky medium, at once advancing and circling back, and pulling humankind helplessly between its battling currents. — Sam Sacks, WSJ, "Fiction: Shrovetide Confessions," 13 Dec. 2018 Throughout history, humankind has made choices to kill pests with ever more powerful weapons. — Rob Dunn, Discover Magazine, "Our Attempts to Eradicate Insects are Just Making them Resistant to Pesticides," 16 Nov. 2018 But humankind is entering into an era where manipulation has grown simultaneously invisible, terrifyingly precise, and embedded in everyday life. — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, "The Death of the Public Square," 6 July 2018 Another exciting aspect of relativistic astronomy is that humankind can directly test the principles of special relativity using macroscopic measurements for the first time. — Scientific American, "Astronomy at the Speed of Light," 3 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'humankind.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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