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looking or acting like a human being
humanoid robots The movie is about humanoid aliens invading Earth.
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Recent Examples of humanoid
New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2025
Why, for example, have some humanoid robot makers announced overly optimistic deployment targets and boosted production capacity well ahead of specific humanoid robot safety standards, high reliability, decent battery life, or demand for hordes of humanoids?
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2025
Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2025
Meters away, two humanoid robots, with bulbous joints and expressionless plastic domes for faces, stand at a desk.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
Like something out of an early Transformers movie, researchers at Caltech have just demonstrated how a humanoid and a drone can team up to accomplish multiple forms of movement.
—New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2025
Why, for example, have some humanoid robot makers announced overly optimistic deployment targets and boosted production capacity well ahead of specific humanoid robot safety standards, high reliability, decent battery life, or demand for hordes of humanoids?
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
The Tesla Bot humanoid robot of Tesla ''Optimus'' is displayed at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, July 6, 2023.
—Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2025
Meters away, two humanoid robots, with bulbous joints and expressionless plastic domes for faces, stand at a desk.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for humanoid
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Real war introduces deception, saturation attacks and human failures.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
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Even human intelligence will follow, as visual reconnaissance teams view what is happening in other settlements or try to recruit sources who live and work there.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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However, in 1948 scientists realized that a small population of the creatures still survived, leading to a conservation effort that's ongoing decades later.—
Michael Nied,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, those on the front lines of rescuing and rehabilitating animals at care centers are concerned that the current furloughs and the possibility of job cuts could result in less support for struggling ocean creatures.—
Erika I. Ritchie,
Oc Register,
29 Oct. 2025
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Or was this hominid more like a chimp than like us?—
Harmon Siegel,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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Arizona State University research scientists discover evidence of a new species of hominid that walked east African grasslands 2.6 million years ago.—
Austin Corona,
AZCentral.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Though the serial killer in each installment of Scream is always revealed to be a different person, the phone voice has remained consistent since Jackson, now 65, took on the job back in 1996.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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The person didn’t respond to further questions, and phone calls to two numbers associated with the email address went unanswered.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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Their names aren't included in the indictment, but several media outlets have reported that those individuals were his wife and daughter, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter.—
Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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More than one‑third of covered workers are enrolled in a plan with a deductible of $2,000 or more for an individual.—
Phil Galewitz,
Miami Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
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That plan goes badly, resulting in Gabriel being banished to Earth to reside among us mortals.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
18 Oct. 2025
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There’s a cosmogony in which the world is fashioned from the corpse of a slain giant or a protohuman, and another in which a hero, Prometheus-style, steals fire from the gods and gives it to mortals.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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As previously reported by PEOPLE, the two men were arrested after the Paris Banditry Repression Brigade (BRB) and the Central Office for the Fight against Trafficking in Cultural Goods (OCBC) led an investigation into the robbery on Saturday, according to French outlets Le Parisien and Paris Match.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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That’s especially problematic for aging science given that men and women age differently.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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Her mother worked at Subway and a fish market and her father worked at Domino’s.—
Taylor Lorenz,
Rolling Stone,
28 Oct. 2025
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In the first months, several truckloads of household and construction debris were removed; 11 fish species were introduced to the lake; and rare birds and animals—including the Eurasian otter, badger, black stork, merlin, and eagle owl—returned to the area.—
Maria Williams,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Humanoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humanoid. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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