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Recent Examples of humanely
She was humanely euthanized over the weekend after falling for the second time in a month.
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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
Your choices when trapping a live raccoon, according to ODNR, are to release it back onto your property, which likely won't solve the nuisance issue, or humanely euthanize it.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2025
Those who violate the law should answer for it, but those who are charged with enforcing the law have the moral responsibility to do so humanely, fairly and justly.
—David Kay, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025
Participants are required to trap and humanely kill each snake.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Burmese pythons are one of the state’s most notorious invasive species, and the FWC has implemented several efforts to remove the large nonvenomous constrictors from our ecosystem — primarily by humanely killing them.
—Nbc South Florida, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2025
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
Your choices when trapping a live raccoon, according to ODNR, are to release it back onto your property, which likely won't solve the nuisance issue, or humanely euthanize it.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2025
Those who violate the law should answer for it, but those who are charged with enforcing the law have the moral responsibility to do so humanely, fairly and justly.
—David Kay, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025
Participants are required to trap and humanely kill each snake.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Burmese pythons are one of the state’s most notorious invasive species, and the FWC has implemented several efforts to remove the large nonvenomous constrictors from our ecosystem — primarily by humanely killing them.
—Nbc South Florida, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for humanely
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Some were neighbors who fostered young children in need of a home, a pharmacist who selflessly served the same community for decades or a veteran who fearlessly died for her country.—
Hope Karnopp,
jsonline.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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No Mob boss, cheerfully decreeing that an inconvenient witness be rubbed out, could be more resolute.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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On a good day, the Undervale houses maybe two living human guests and at least a couple dozen haunts of all demographics, time periods and modes of death — including the brother Katherine inherited it all from, the cheerfully feckless Nathan (Will Forte).—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Sep. 2025
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In public, Mark Kerr speaks amiably about his trainer turned rival and even takes him along for a rowdy impromptu meet-and-greet, but the lack of friction comes off less as a sign of his unflappability than of Safdie’s indifference to probing a friendship beyond buddy-comedy depth.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Sep. 2025
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But that’s also what’s interesting about this lightly enjoyable, mostly disposable sequel to 2021’s amiably ultraviolent Nobody.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Humanely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humanely. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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