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Recent Examples of humanely
Her team now plans to test ways to safely and humanely reduce the invasive rat population around bat hibernation spots, like the cave in Bad Segeberg.
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NPR, 8 Nov. 2025
To make new plantings a little more pest-proof, experiment with repellent sprays, like putrid egg solids, hot pepper spray, and humanely sourced predator spray.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2025
Efforts to trap and humanely euthanize pests comes with expenses estimated at over $100 million annually.
—Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
After consulting with multiple veterinarians, facility staff made the choice to humanely euthanize him early Wednesday.
—Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
She was humanely euthanized over the weekend after falling for the second time in a month.
—Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
To take part in the challenge, participants were required to pass an online training, as per the event's website, and had to kill the pythons humanely.
—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Ikejime is the technique used by Japanese fishermen for centuries to slaughter fish instantly and humanely by inserting a spike into the brain.
—Akiko Katayama, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to poison or a slow, brutal death.
—Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
NPR, 8 Nov. 2025
To make new plantings a little more pest-proof, experiment with repellent sprays, like putrid egg solids, hot pepper spray, and humanely sourced predator spray.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2025
Efforts to trap and humanely euthanize pests comes with expenses estimated at over $100 million annually.
—Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
After consulting with multiple veterinarians, facility staff made the choice to humanely euthanize him early Wednesday.
—Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
She was humanely euthanized over the weekend after falling for the second time in a month.
—Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
To take part in the challenge, participants were required to pass an online training, as per the event's website, and had to kill the pythons humanely.
—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Ikejime is the technique used by Japanese fishermen for centuries to slaughter fish instantly and humanely by inserting a spike into the brain.
—Akiko Katayama, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to poison or a slow, brutal death.
—Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for humanely
Adverb
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These days, Christmas movies, broadly and charitably defined, seem to be synonymous with the brassy, hokey, sickly sweet sort of fare that has a permanent home on the Hallmark Channel and is in perpetual rotation on Netflix.—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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In effect, this is just a trope of mondo films — or, less charitably, mockumentaries.—
Sam Bodrojan,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Giving altruistically may be unrealistic when the sun confronts Neptune.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
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But sellers do not offer lower prices to some consumers altruistically.—
George Slover,
Time,
6 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Vance Joseph tried outfitting himself in a modest tone, even if his unit hasn’t exactly acted benevolently toward its training camp counterpart.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
5 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Lazary was most impressed with how diligently and unselfishly Haight developed from a top-line scorer into a responsible, third-line, two-way center.—
Joe Smith,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Nor from showing how Bull unselfishly and painfully gets in the way when preventing Sterling from mounting his beloved Honey.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Our partners over there are looking for everyday heroes, like teachers, first responders, heck, anyone who has selflessly served others.—
Nashville Tennessean,
Nashville Tennessean,
15 Oct. 2025
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This part of the story is a story in itself, but the wars and the result left two-thirds of the recruits dead and rendered Rusty’s appendages useless as he selflessly piloted night and day to fight off every rogue machine.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Iasiello, a licensed real estate broker, exhaustively and cheerfully documents his work buying, rehabilitating and flipping these homes, providing daily video diaries of the work and line item breakdowns of the entire cost — and profit — associated with some of his projects.—
Karen Wang,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Those fissures burst into the open last week, when Tucker Carlson conducted a friendly interview with the cheerfully white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
3 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Parker has always seemed to amiably float along in his retro-futurist space cloud.—
Jon Dolan,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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And Tarrant’s Noa, despite getting more screentime than either of them, is so far more just an amiably clueless straight man for everyone else (but mostly Colette) to project their weirdness onto than a compelling personality of his own.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Humanely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humanely. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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