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human beings in general
all humanity can learn from this tragedy
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Recent Examples of humanities
Some instructors, particularly in the humanities, told Claybaugh they’ve been forced to shorten reading lists and assign lighter material in response to student complaints.
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Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
The humanities program will work with the arts board's Folk & Traditional Arts Apprenticeship program to train master and apprentice Wisconsin folk artists in planning and producing public programs that showcase and contextualize cultural traditions, stories and histories.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Other accolades go to trailblazers in arts, literature, social sciences, communication and humanities, technical and scientific research, international cooperation, and concord, per Duke University.
—Kelsey Stewart, Footwear News, 25 Oct. 2025
The revival of the classics and humanities is essential to this moral renaissance.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Matthew Reznicek is an associate professor of medical humanities at the University of Minnesota.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
TikTok’s algorithm started swamping me with humanities grad students of varying cogency.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
American literacy is also declining alongside the decay of humanities funding, and that’s been going on since the Regan Era.
—Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
Thousands of its elementary students are currently reading with the platform, according to Jennifer Begley, the district’s director of humanities.
—Gordon Ebanks, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
The humanities program will work with the arts board's Folk & Traditional Arts Apprenticeship program to train master and apprentice Wisconsin folk artists in planning and producing public programs that showcase and contextualize cultural traditions, stories and histories.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Other accolades go to trailblazers in arts, literature, social sciences, communication and humanities, technical and scientific research, international cooperation, and concord, per Duke University.
—Kelsey Stewart, Footwear News, 25 Oct. 2025
The revival of the classics and humanities is essential to this moral renaissance.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Matthew Reznicek is an associate professor of medical humanities at the University of Minnesota.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
TikTok’s algorithm started swamping me with humanities grad students of varying cogency.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
American literacy is also declining alongside the decay of humanities funding, and that’s been going on since the Regan Era.
—Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
Thousands of its elementary students are currently reading with the platform, according to Jennifer Begley, the district’s director of humanities.
—Gordon Ebanks, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for humanities
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But beyond the text on his screen there are entire worlds—of history, philosophy, and maybe even of love—in the stories and people he and AI conjure.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Their findings show that planets are far less common around stars in this late stage of life, suggesting that many close-orbiting worlds are likely destroyed as their stars expand, offering strong observational evidence of this dramatic planetary demise.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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Invest in fiction written by humans and so support human creativity, vocations, and organic economies?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Historic data In 2024, California witnessed 8,011 fires caused by humans, as reported by NIFC, which burned 990,939 acres of wildland.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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Graduates earn a median income of $90,900 after three years, which rises to $170,100 20 years out—the highest median salary of the top 25 publics.—
Fiona Riley,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Unlike democratic politicians who must constantly justify their actions to skeptical publics and hostile media, autocrats like Putin and Kim arrive at these summits with clear, patient, long-term objectives.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
16 Aug. 2025
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Campbell, one of the fastest men in college football, has six touchdown catches this season of 50 or more yards, including the 65-yard play that gave Sac State a 14-7 lead over the Vikings.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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Two men have been arrested in connection with a fatal daytime shooting in Avondale.—
Matthew Cupelli,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
8 Nov. 2025
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That plan goes badly, resulting in Gabriel being banished to Earth to reside among us mortals.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
18 Oct. 2025
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There’s a cosmogony in which the world is fashioned from the corpse of a slain giant or a protohuman, and another in which a hero, Prometheus-style, steals fire from the gods and gives it to mortals.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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In fact, Pittsburgh’s Black community boasted a symphony orchestra, a mandolin string quartet, an orphanage, and a long list of literary societies and fraternal organizations.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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The more fragile our societies become, the slower the transition away from fossil fuels.—
Natalie Unterstell,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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But, at a moment when big narrative audio studios are shuttering, loads of people are being laid off and fewer documentary series are being made, this sentence really struck a nerve in the industry of folks who produce, write, edit and sound design longform narrative audio.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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And in a recent court filing officials say that could take weeks or even months, especially in states with older systems for folks to get the money on their EBT cards.—
The NPR Network,
NPR,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Humanities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humanities. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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