How to Use nonhuman in a Sentence

nonhuman

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• In doing so, the monkeys became the first of their genus and the fourth of all nonhuman primates to enter the Stone Age, so to speak.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 13 July 2018
• Who knows, maybe in a few years’ time a nonhuman participant will take part in the IMO for the first time—and maybe even win gold.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
• The creatures, which look like scaly anteaters, are the most trafficked nonhuman animals in the world.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2019
• Zelman would be the first to admit he’s an unlikely bard of the nonhuman world.
  — Jordan G. Teicher, The New Republic, 7 Jan. 2020
• Some parrot species, in fact, can attain feats equal to those of nonhuman primates.
  — Onur Güntürkün, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
• Comparing Ata’s genome to the genomes of a chimpanzee and monkey ruled out a nonhuman origin.
  — Ben Guarino, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Comparing Ata's genome to the genomes of a chimpanzee and monkey ruled out a nonhuman origin.
  — Ben Guarino, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• But sometimes the leap is from a nonhuman critter into a human.
  — David Quammen, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2012
• Not long ago, the idea that any nonhuman animal deserved moral concern would have seemed very strange.
  — WIRED, 27 June 2023
• Their work emerges in a class of animal research that uses AI to translate the languages of nonhuman species.
  — Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024
• By gnawing away at the old view that nonhuman animals simply serve as food, such work can counter anthropogenic views of the past.
  — Paige Madison, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
• Macaques are one of three modern nonhuman primate species that use stone tools (the other two are chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys).
  — Zach Zorich, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
• Once full of animals, Paris emptied of much nonhuman life.
  — Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 27 July 2023
• Before too long, my human boyfriend would return, discover the nonhuman parts inside of me, and storm off.
  — As Told To James Factora, Them, 10 Oct. 2024
• Lake points out that these quirks don’t align with the kinds of words children learn most quickly, which suggests the model has nonhuman idiosyncrasies.
  — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• Yet among nonhuman animals, the creatures that cause more American deaths than any other are bees and wasps.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 4 May 2020
• The cast of characters is nonhuman, of course, and none of them have perceptions, motivations or habits in the ordinary sense.
  — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
• If not, researchers may need to begin with nonhuman studies, Hubbard said.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
• Although researchers have observed signs of menopause in some captive nonhuman primates, this is the first time it has been documented in primates in the wild.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2023
• How are nonhuman conceptions of time, such as moss time, connected to justice?
  — Hazlitt, 8 Mar. 2023
• Mingle with nonhuman locals at the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2023
• Supply chains are often talked about in nonhuman corporate terms, but they are made up of people whose livelihoods depend on them.
  — 1000 Landscapes For 1 Billion People, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• The last one is unique to parrots and humans, which might explain why nonhuman primates like monkeys do not spontaneously bust a move to music.
  — Katie Camero, Science | AAAS, 8 July 2019
• Billye reminds us that there is a vast array of nonhuman life that is worthy of emulation.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019
• Exactly five years later, the first nonhuman primate was conceived in a petri dish — a baboon named E.T. for Embryo Transfer.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2023
• The seven scientists here document the impacts of global warming on the nonhuman world.
  — Catrin Einhorn Thea Traff, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• For 2,000 years, all nonhuman animals have been legal things who lack the capacity for any legal rights.
  — Karin Brulliard, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• The team found that the Neandertals and modern humans in their sample had a group of Streptococcus bacteria in their mouths that the nonhuman primates didn’t have.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
• Copyright law wasn’t designed to reach nonhuman actors, Howell said.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023
• In the scientific realm, however, the notion that nonhuman animals use language is often seen as foolish or naïve.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024