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Recent Examples of nonhuman
In his rejection of a rigid empiricism, moreover, Kingsley left room for intuitive and imaginative approaches to nature, and indeed to science, and refused to draw a hard line between human and nonhuman experience, instead viewing all creatures as belonging to a spectrum with no sharp boundaries.
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Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025
All living things—human and nonhuman, massive and miniscule—are part of Earth, creating and coevolving over time.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 12 Dec. 2024
Maybe so, considering that neuroscience research is increasingly suggesting that joy and positive emotions play a critical role in the health of both human and nonhuman animals.
—Kelly Lambert, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
Scientists have a lot of experience working with populations that don’t have language—studying preverbal infants or studying nonhuman animal species.
—Gary Stix, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
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Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025
All living things—human and nonhuman, massive and miniscule—are part of Earth, creating and coevolving over time.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 12 Dec. 2024
Maybe so, considering that neuroscience research is increasingly suggesting that joy and positive emotions play a critical role in the health of both human and nonhuman animals.
—Kelly Lambert, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
Scientists have a lot of experience working with populations that don’t have language—studying preverbal infants or studying nonhuman animal species.
—Gary Stix, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonhuman
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The idea the director had proposed to Laura, once they’d been put in touch by a photography student of his at Parsons for whom Laura had done a bit of writing, was to shoot the film from the vantage point of an inhuman and ubiquitous force.—
Hannah Gold,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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Mahmoud described the conditions as inhuman and unprofessional, saying he was shoved and kicked by prison guards and police inside the Russian Compound, where he was held.—
Leila Fadel,
NPR,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Navigating the Cosmos For human and robotic explorers venturing beyond Earth, far more advanced navigation tools have replaced the simple compass.—
Jake Parks,
Discover Magazine,
21 Feb. 2025
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An experimental device has been designed to help such folks lift cumbersome objects, by adding a robotic hand to the back of their dominant hand.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
21 Feb. 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 3 Mar. 2025.
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