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Recent Examples of nonhuman
According to Jaime Banks, an associate professor at Syracuse University who studies the relationships between humans and social technologies — artificial intelligence, social robots, video game characters — people have been forming meaningful bonds with nonhuman entities for a long time.
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Gina Cherelus, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Colossal described it as the most complete sequencing ever done on an extinct nonhuman animal, mapping the thylacine’s genes with more than ninety-nine-per-cent accuracy.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
While most scientists have long abandoned this view, researchers have not identified a definitive test for the capacity to feel pain in any nonhuman animal.
—Bob Fischer, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025
The fact that there has been recovery of technology of nonhuman origin.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 9 Mar. 2025
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Gina Cherelus, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Colossal described it as the most complete sequencing ever done on an extinct nonhuman animal, mapping the thylacine’s genes with more than ninety-nine-per-cent accuracy.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
While most scientists have long abandoned this view, researchers have not identified a definitive test for the capacity to feel pain in any nonhuman animal.
—Bob Fischer, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025
The fact that there has been recovery of technology of nonhuman origin.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 9 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonhuman
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In these seemingly inhuman terrains, the figure coyly persists: a woman’s profile appears along the sheer side of a craggy peak; another’s eye peeks out from a crevasse.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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In the late 1800s, many Americans believed that Chinese immigrants brought disease, crime, and vice, along with an inhuman work ethic.—
Viet Thanh Nguyễn,
Time,
28 Apr. 2025
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Through robotic production line, Losanje manages to transform finished textile products — from clothing to bedsheets and curtains, among other goods — into ready-to-reuse fabrics.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
16 May 2025
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The goofy novelty of AI making adequate songs out of taboo subjects will fade, but millions bending the knee to robotic mediocrity isn’t going away anytime soon.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
14 May 2025
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Then a twist of fate and tragedy casts the subhuman nature of this treatment in a fresh light, and Alma, with a terrible new understanding, does what grown women for time immemorial have done.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
14 May 2025
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The campaign was threaded with a drumbeat suggestion that homeless people are a subhuman plague.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
Orlando Sentinel,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Nonhuman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonhuman. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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