nonhuman

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Recent Examples of nonhuman Her writing also asserts that words, often expressed in the Lakota language, are just as capable of fostering vital human and nonhuman connections. Melissa Ragain, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025 An evolution already came this spring with The Electric State, a Russo brothers Netflix movie with Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown, filled with all manner of robots and nonhuman creatures. Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2025 But what was remarkable—almost unnerving—was that such a simple and common plant alkaloid, in a pure form, would also just happen to gate access to a bizarre hypercomplex alternate universe teeming with apparently intelligent nonhuman—alien—beings. Literary Hub, 16 July 2025 In addition to nonhuman labor, the series requires housewives to engage in hypervisible, hybrid labor as a gendered spectacle of love. Literary Hub, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for nonhuman
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Adjective
  • This system used early computers and data networking to communicate about that mythical Soviet air attack, and without explicit knowledge, beyond the purview of consent, Pynchon knew that Americans of the 1960s were being enclosed in a vast, dangerous, inhuman, technological system.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • One kind of inhuman, intelligent, unpredictable being is simply a foil and catalyst for the other.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • With the convergence of robotic process automation (RPA), generative AI and process intelligence, a new paradigm is emerging at enterprises: AI recommends, human decides, bot executes.
    Dutt Kalluri, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • While attempting to negotiate Owens' surrender, the SWAT team deployed a robotic device to establish contact with him.
    Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • So, yeah, there are Muslim terrorists, but they are also shown as people with lives and interests and not subhuman villains, which, umm, could’ve been worse.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 30 July 2025
  • 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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“Nonhuman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonhuman. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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