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looking or acting like a human being
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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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Aquatic nuisance species are non-native plants and animals that can cause ecological or economic harm, or even harm to human health if introduced to a body of water.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Oct. 2025
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The application process for Project Mercury involves almost no human interaction, according to the person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named discussing non-public information.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The creatures are scavengers feeding on the seafloor and plankton as well as algae and waste particles.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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Then, once your stay is over, guests hop right back on that glacier ferry for one more magical ride back to real life, but not before all those arctic creatures come out to wave goodbye.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
22 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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Police reportedly located the woman after reviewing a two-second security camera video clip, in which she was allegedly seen on a city sidewalk carrying something that appeared to be wrapped in a bundle and holding it as a person would typically hold a baby.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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One issue is that hypnosis has long been viewed as a form of entertainment, a stage show with a hypnotist and an audience, which can give viewers a sense that hypnosis is something done to you rather than a process that a person is led through.—
Rustin Dodd,
New York Times,
23 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
Noun
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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
Noun
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Fabian Hurzeler’s team have had their best matches in this respect against Manchester City in August and 10-man Chelsea in September, converting five of seven big chances across both wins.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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A lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025
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There is no minimum size requirement on any fish.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Oct. 2025
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Add kale to soups and smoothies, blend it into dips, or steam it as a side with grains, legumes, fish, or lean proteins.—
Barbie Cervoni,
Verywell Health,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Humanoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humanoid. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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