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as in humanoid
resembling a human in shape or form They were on the lookout for the famed Sasquatch, a tall anthropoid creature some thought lived deep in these forests.

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noun

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Adjective
That the officiant would be a giant anthropoid jar of mayo named Manny Mayo was actually too good to be true. Heather Schroering, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 Aug. 2025 By never breaking the anthropoid conceit — keeping Williams a chimp from working-class childhood obscurity to adult pop-stardom — Better Man evolves into the most honest and exploratory showbiz movie ever made. Armond White, National Review, 10 Jan. 2025 The Chinese, conversely, have been convinced forc enturies that the entire rest of the world is inhabited by an alien species of lower anthropoid. Jean Shepherd, Car and Driver, 18 Dec. 2022 Solo’s first mate on the Millennium Falcon, Chewbacca, a 7-foot monkey-face anthropoid has his own following. Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2021 But thanks to a meager fossil record, the question of where this first anthropoid was born has remained open. Rachel Preiser, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 This 65-67 million-year-old relic looked down from on high on the anthropoids enjoying their time of evolutionary flourishing. Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 June 2017 Because the fossil indicates that the tarsier and anthropoid primate groups split before that era, the anthropoid lineage is also at least that old, says Beard. Sid Perkins, Scientific American, 5 June 2013 Since humans are apes, and apes are anthropoid primates, the last common ancestor of all anthropoids would be one of our distant primate ancestors. Brian Switek, WIRED, 1 July 2009
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Adjective
  • Goldman Sachs now projects the global humanoid market could reach $38 billion by 2035.
    Maya Cakmak, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Greece recently witnessed the world’s first International Humanoid Olympiad in Olympia, where humanoid robots played boxing and soccer matches to attain glory.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025
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  • That monicker presumably comes from the fact that like the legendary ape, the camera has a big footprint.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
  • At that point, however, society had already come to believe largely inaccurate ideas about ape society.
    RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025
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  • Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories.
    Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Not game hours, real human hours.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Mihály is a brute who mistreats his mother.
    Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Some are slow and heavy brutes that have tons of health while others are slightly but deal more damage.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2025
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  • One of my favorites is the tongue louse, which usually comes in through the gills of the host fish (something like a red snapper), eats the tongue, and then takes its place.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • In reality, Rothstein was a louse, forever at odds with his Orthodox father, Abraham, and upright brother Harry.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
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  • Vineland’s repressive villain Brock Vond ends ferried to hell by two Eastside vatos locos, while the hippie father Zoyd reunites with his daughter at an anarchist family picnic.
    John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
  • There are villains in every episode and the story uses them to showcase some societal issues.
    Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Victims of a snake bite are advised not to try to remove the venom themselves or to tie off the bite area.
    Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The former enslaved told stories of Laveau dancing with snakes and fish, her movements blending her feminine form with the aquatic.
    Time, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • Borrowing from the likes of Luchino Visconti with his eye for exquisite period detail, the great Stanley Kubrick turned to 18th-century literary adaptation in his epic picaresque of a young cad named Barry Lyndon.
    Christina Newland, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • As long as these self-promoting cads are in charge, things can only get worse.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2025

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