HUMANS Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

humans

noun

plural of human

as in people

a member of the human race humans are the only mammals not endowed with a natural defense against the elements, such as fur or a thick hide

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Recent Examples of humans The trip broke the record for farthest space flight accomplished by humans and gave the scientists aboard the spacecraft a chance to test critical systems within Orion, including the ship's life support system, maneuverability, its heat shield, and the first toilet to ever orbit the moon. —

Alana Wise, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026 When the astronauts reached the farthest point humans have ever been in space, Americans were in awe. —

Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026 The astronauts did not land on the moon; rather, they were tasked with a test flight in the hope that humans could return to the moon's surface in the next two years. —

Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026 Isaacman was born more than a decade after the last time humans walked on the moon. —

Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026 Ordinary humans like Stephen’s selfish boss are depicted as giant walking eggs, while others are proportioned like bobble heads. —

Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 11 Apr. 2026 Apollo 13's unplanned lunar loop sent it 248,655 miles (400,171 kilometers) from Earth, farther than any humans had ever gone before. —

Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2026 Astronauts last went to the moon in December 1972 for the Apollo 17 mission, three years after humans first landed on the moon in the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. —

Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2026 The researchers then measured cortisol, a hormone that’s an indicator of stress in humans. —

Mikayla Bunnell, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2026

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The two men spoke with disdain for Europe, and Szijjártó agreed to help in removing an Uzbek-Russian oligarch’s sister from a European sanctions list.

— Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
Within the Black community, men are more likely to be married than women, and Black women are more likely than Black men to be divorced, separated or widowed.

— Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2026