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as in person
a member of the human race
we must try to be kind to our fellow creatures
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as in animal
one of the lower animals as distinguished from human beings
a saint who is celebrated for his love of birds and other small creatures
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Recent Examples of creature
The culprit, the paper suggests, is the teeny tiny plant-like creatures that form the building blocks of the marine food web — phytoplankton.
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Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 19 June 2025
This 2025 version of Walking with Dinosaurs uses computer animation to follow the lives of the creatures during the Cretaceous period, from their beginning to their end.
—Devonne Goode, Parents, 19 June 2025
Read Next California Sea creatures spotted doing ‘ocean spa treatment’ off CA coast.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 18 June 2025
What needs to happen to turn the nightcrawler—the same banal creature found in gardens and on flooded sidewalks across the continent—into a valuable commodity? . . .
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 19 June 2025
This 2025 version of Walking with Dinosaurs uses computer animation to follow the lives of the creatures during the Cretaceous period, from their beginning to their end.
—Devonne Goode, Parents, 19 June 2025
Read Next California Sea creatures spotted doing ‘ocean spa treatment’ off CA coast.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 18 June 2025
What needs to happen to turn the nightcrawler—the same banal creature found in gardens and on flooded sidewalks across the continent—into a valuable commodity? . . .
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for creature
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This contrast shows how the same event can feel empowering to one person and limiting to another. 2.—
IESE Business School,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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Winners can pick up their claim forms in person at more than 23,000 California Lottery retail partners, but are also allowed to fill out a form online.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
27 June 2025
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Answer: Shiz University What kind of animal is Dr. Dillamond?—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
17 June 2025
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The critically praised 2024 TIFF premiere — a survival action-thriller set after a plague has destroyed animal life on Earth — doesn’t open nationally until July 2.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
17 June 2025
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Sturdy men work with their hands, forging arrows with which to kill zombie interlopers.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
19 June 2025
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Reinhart, who scored in Games 3-5, was a man on a mission from the beginning of this one as evident by his first goal of the game, which gave the Panthers an early lead.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2025
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More pre-authorization controls spending and premiums but makes patients' lives harder; less pre-authorization will raise premiums while easing the burden for some patients.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, SAP helps the world run better and improve people’s lives.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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Usually, all these guys are practicing before the set in the evening.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
26 June 2025
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Jayson Tatum landed in a Boston situation that didn’t rely on him to be the guy until Year 3.—
Mike Vorkunov,
New York Times,
26 June 2025
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Since its first human spaceflight in 2020, SpaceX has now flown its fleet of Crew Dragon spacecraft 18 times carrying 68 humans to space.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 June 2025
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Of these, the scientists looked at three aspects of jobs that involved contact with other people: general contact with other humans, the emotional demands caused by dealing with people that involved health or other problems, and confrontation in the workplace with other people.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
25 June 2025
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“Creature.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creature. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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