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Recent Examples of subhuman The individuals and groups committing these acts are subhuman. Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2025 Yet today’s LLMs are distinctly subhuman in their ability to absorb and understand large quantities of information. Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2024 Cinematographers Alejandro Chávez and Trevor Roach shoot the underworld where the victims work and live with limited light sources creating a drab, oppressive environment that highlight the subhuman conditions they are subjected to. Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024 Others, including Gali, say the term took on a darker tone that denigrates Native women, relegating them to a subhuman stature. Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for subhuman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subhuman
Adjective
  • Not softly, but with brute force, with grit and toughness, heart to match his hands.
    Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The developers sprinkle puzzle elements into some dungeons while also adding moments where stealth is more useful and efficient than brute force.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The scene, which was not in Stephenie Meyer's 2008 book that the movie was adapted from, raised eyebrows for its brutal killings of vampires Carlisle Cullen (Peter Facinelli) and Jasper Hale (Jackson Rathbone), as well as werewolves Seth (Booboo Stewart) and Leah Clearwater (Julia Jones).
    Jen Juneau, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In a new era of Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders, the race to own Birmingham’s massive reconstruction project becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The roughly 5-month-old kitten got a fresh start after he and his littermates were found living in a colony of feral cats.
    Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Why does this guy — who seems nice enough and does have a generational voice but mostly just stood there and waved at phone cameras — have one of the biggest songs in the world and people going absolutely feral for him?
    Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Channels the inner, bestial urges to release an unworldly howl that pushes back any nearby enemies.
    Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
  • His nemesis in this series was a bestial Wakandan in a gorilla suit called Man-Ape.
    Ekow Eshun July 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025

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“Subhuman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subhuman. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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