hominids

plural of hominid

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hominids
Noun
  • Invest in fiction written by humans and so support human creativity, vocations, and organic economies?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • In the absence of whales, sucker fish avoid predators by seeking other large creatures to latch onto, including manta rays, dolphins and unlucky scuba divers.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
  • That means algae could grow in larger volumes, feeding more creatures and even possibly shifting how carbon moves through the ocean.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Millennials, typically defined as individuals born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s, are now at a point in their lives where their generational nostalgia is front and center.
    Saba Hamedy, NBC news, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Spirited, political, and deeply kind individuals, the Christos were passionately devoted to their artistic vision.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Bedecking the old fish-out-of-water story formula in holiday garb and tinseling it with some apt moral messages for this dysfunctional age, screenwriters Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick have concocted a satisfyingly new-fangled Christmas yarn.
    Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
  • In the heart-stopping video, she could be seen diving horizontally into the water when a large school of herring fish could be seen swimming up beneath her.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Commonly grown as multi-trunked specimens, the exfoliating bark takes center stage in winter with peeling layers of cinnamon-brown.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Collectors have become increasingly fanatical about pristine fresh-to-market or new old-stock watches, but Biebuyck says the reality is that such specimens are incredibly rare.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • They are felt as they are composed, painfully, joyously, cellularly—and they are designed for other biological beings to experience, to connect with, to be animated, provoked and moved by.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Others believe that spirits were never mortal beings.
    Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Those on nine-month contracts must devote 480 hours to instruction — which can include things like lab work, clinical work and internships in addition to lecture time — over the course of the contract.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Because, in waking life, the truth is that things haven’t been the same since the strain of raising two young kids started to wear on their parents.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Hominids.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hominids. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.

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