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Recent Examples of nonhuman
Even the area’s nonhuman residents—from pets to local wildlife—have shown unexplainable symptoms.
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Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 25 July 2024
After years of work improving the vaccine’s design and testing its safety in several nonhuman species, the first European trial was held on a military base in Belgium.
—Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
The researchers also found 94 nonhuman tracks belonging to birds and cow- and horse-like animals.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 28 Nov. 2024
So researchers use alternative indicators to gauge how a nonhuman animal is thinking or feeling – such as tracking eye movement.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2024
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Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 25 July 2024
After years of work improving the vaccine’s design and testing its safety in several nonhuman species, the first European trial was held on a military base in Belgium.
—Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
The researchers also found 94 nonhuman tracks belonging to birds and cow- and horse-like animals.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 28 Nov. 2024
So researchers use alternative indicators to gauge how a nonhuman animal is thinking or feeling – such as tracking eye movement.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonhuman
Adjective
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For example, if in an upcoming season of one of the spinoffs, people started using superpowers like flight and inhuman strength, or using futuristic laser guns, audiences would rightly be confused and thrown for a loop.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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In the world of Eraserhead, the first feature of David Lynch, everything is emphatically not fine: Strange industrial noises fill the soundtrack, all efforts at human connection go awry, and worst of all, our hero has fathered a disgusting inhuman creature the wriggles and oozes all over its crib.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
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To do that, someone would likely need to create a type of digital skin that would attach to a robotic limb and rapidly collect and interpret data about the world.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
16 Jan. 2025
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Asked what would happen to Gateway if SLS is cancelled, Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA's director of human and robotic exploration, responded that the cancellation would only impact ESA if no other launcher were able to transport Orion and the ESM to lunar orbit.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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Yet today’s LLMs are distinctly subhuman in their ability to absorb and understand large quantities of information.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
20 Dec. 2024
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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
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“Nonhuman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonhuman. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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