HUMAN BEINGS Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

human beings

noun

plural of human being

as in lives

a member of the human race we're all human beings, regardless of our differences

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Recent Examples of human beings Haitian soldiers seasoned on American battlefields during the revolution later sparked Haiti’s overthrow of French colonial rule, depriving France of its most profitable slave colony and ending one of the most brutal enslavement of human beings in modern world history. —

Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026 Customers aren’t human beings to delight—they’re simply metrics like Net Promoter Score that must be kept from dropping too low. —

Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026 Throughout history, toxic males in many cultures have worked hard to limit women’s options, control their behavior and treat them as second-class human beings. —

Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 June 2026 Labor unions, reformers, churches and ordinary citizens pushed back against an economic system that treated human beings as expendable. —

Tom Debley, Mercury News, 16 June 2026 But the connections and the communion available to us, as human beings, are not limited to interacting with other human beings. —

Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026 By then, the Israeli government had wiped out roughly 2 percent of Gaza’s population—some 40,000 human beings. —

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026 To be treated like human beings again would be the most helpful of all. —

Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 9 June 2026 When human beings sit around a table together to eat, something shifts. —

Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for human beings

Noun

The town’s predicament highlights the limits of any ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, and the lingering hardship faced by residents whose lives have been upended by years of conflict.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
The labor of these aging world-builders becomes a blueprint to navigate memory, legacy, and mortality, revealing the divine spirit residing in their daily lives.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 June 2026