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Recent Examples of nonhuman
The motif of changelings—of fairies taking a human child and leaving a nonhuman child in its place—comes up throughout the story.
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Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
Scientists earlier showed that Ronan, a resident of the Long Marine Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was the first nonhuman mammal who could be trained to keep a beat, including moving in time with music.
—Gennaro Tomma, New York Times, 1 May 2025
In the empty, evening-quiet, and dim room, the metallic, nonhuman voice sounded like something from the other side:
Ingrid is dead.
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
According to a new paper published in the journal Current Biology, the observational data is the first evidence of the sharing of alcoholic foods among nonhuman great apes in the wild.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 21 Apr. 2025
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Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
Scientists earlier showed that Ronan, a resident of the Long Marine Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was the first nonhuman mammal who could be trained to keep a beat, including moving in time with music.
—Gennaro Tomma, New York Times, 1 May 2025
In the empty, evening-quiet, and dim room, the metallic, nonhuman voice sounded like something from the other side:
Ingrid is dead.
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
According to a new paper published in the journal Current Biology, the observational data is the first evidence of the sharing of alcoholic foods among nonhuman great apes in the wild.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonhuman
Adjective
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Their elite leadership faced war crimes at the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, and their inhuman savagery was documented and widely published.—
Eric Patterson,
National Review,
28 June 2025
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In our show, the thing is that our villains suffer not from being inhuman, but being too human.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2025
Adjective
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What might this robotic world of the future look like?—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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One of the robotic arms then retrieves the items from storage and delivers them to the window within about 90 seconds.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
30 June 2025
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Yes, but: They were largely treated as subhuman and even lynched across the U.S. Here are five legal challenges that proved pivotal in demanding equality.—
Shawna Chen,
Axios,
22 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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“Nonhuman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonhuman. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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