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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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Recent Examples of anthropoid
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Brian Switek,
WIRED,
1 July 2009
Noun
That the officiant would be a giant anthropoid jar of mayo named Manny Mayo was actually too good to be true.
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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anthropoid
Adjective
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While official details of the participating humanoid robots remain limited, videos circulating online suggest models from Booster Robotics and Unitree Robotics taking part in the challenge.
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This public display of continuous operation is becoming the new standard for validating humanoid robot capabilities.
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To decorate the feet in designer duds, to emphasize their strangeness, their alien qualities that tie us to our distant ape ancestors, with expensive materials and odd shapes, is to walk fashion forward with Darwinian chic.
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From the human perspective, that’s the rough equivalent of another great-ape species surviving for more than a millennium.
Adjective
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Holden Blanco Brower and partner Aspen Simone hope people walk away with some surprising facts and a new appreciation for the human-pigeon bond.
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Perhaps this isn’t even an age in that sense of the term, not in the sense that the Baroque or the Roman or the ancient Greek culture represented an age but, rather, the entire occurrence of human civilization to date represents one single epoch, and that is over.
Noun
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Shinnecock was still a brute of a test, but the red numbers on the white scoreboard were an unfamiliar site for this course.
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These brutes commonly exceed 50 pounds.
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This arrangement worked well until the vine-killing louse made its way from Bordeaux to Rioja and destroyed the vineyards there, which upended the region’s industry for decades.
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Soaking in the warm water may disrupt louse activity or egg placement within their fur.
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Together, the band brings to life a mythic world of ancient heroes and villains, attracting an excited audience of headbangers and fantasy fanatics, many of whom show up in costume.
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The performance earned her the award for best villain at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards.
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Each club assembled a roster of ten athletes through a snake draft, selecting equal numbers of men and women.
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Look, snakes of a feather flock together.
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Meanwhile, the audience will learn more about cad-ish hearthrob Rupert Campbell-Black’s (Alex Hassell) backstory, with the entrance of two starry new characters, his ex-wife Helen, played by Hayley Atwell, and her new husband Malise, played by Rupert Everett.
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Ever the cad, Bednar still wouldn’t commit to saying Wedgewood when asked if 41 would be his starter for Game 2 on Tuesday night.
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“Anthropoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anthropoid. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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