hominids

plural of hominid

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hominids
Noun
  • These additives are turning up everywhere, from air and water to soil, and are suspected endocrine disruptors that interfere with hormones in humans and animals.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Not as a gimmick, but to automate reporting, clean messy data, and flag compliance risks, freeing up humans for strategy, supplier engagement, and culture change.
    Gus Bartholomew, Sourcing Journal, 3 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
  • The man from the city provided goats, yam, fish, palm oil, orogbo, sugar and honey.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Last month, the opportunity finally came, thanks to a plucky desert fish and the biologists working to safeguard the species from extinction.
    Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 4 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 11 Nov. 2025.

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