How to Use humankind in a Sentence

humankind

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  • But by then most of the rest of humankind will have moved on.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The First Star announces that all humankind was born out of the womb of Africa.
    — Essence, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The key to this is whether the combined AI would seek to wipe out humankind.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • That’s the movie where the apes rise up and overthrow the fascistic humankind.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The final bite of a cake cone is one of the single best bites of food in all of humankind.
    — Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The year is 2041 and the next step in the future of humankind is imminent.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 29 Apr. 2022
  • By the end, the book leaves readers with a new sense of wonder at the origins of humankind.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2020
  • And humankind chose to put their own ambition above what the rule was.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2023
  • As of last month, humankind has taken to the Martian skies.
    — Asa Stahl, Chron, 25 May 2021
  • So, too, with the Jewish People, with all of humankind.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The rover could be in the right place to answer some of humankind's deepest questions.
    — NBC News, 13 Oct. 2021
  • If this is the last invention of humankind, then all bets are off.
    — WIRED, 13 June 2023
  • Is it meant for all humankind or for only a sliver of us?
    — The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2023
  • That's just the way of humankind, bringing hell on ourselves.
    — Joshua Rivera, Wired, 22 Dec. 2020
  • This time, Neo isn’t a Christ figure who will save humankind.
    — NBC News, 18 Dec. 2021
  • If the robot overlords churn out a lot of these, humankind will be too blissed out to fight back.
    — Connie Ogle, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Climate change is akin to all of humankind sitting in a big car with the sun bearing down.
    — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 26 Sep. 2022
  • So this is a taste of the normal of the future unless we, humankind, get to work and address it.
    — ABC News, 23 June 2024
  • The story of humankind’s journey to the moon can’t be captured in a single frame.
    — USA Today, 22 June 2021
  • Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth is one of the oldest proverbs known to humankind, whinnying back at least 1,500 years.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2024
  • And so just the nature of humankind is something that's just foremost on his mind.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The show is set hundreds of years after humankind has lost the ability to see.
    — Shafiq Najib, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2022
  • But that has never stopped humankind from looking to the future with hope.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Toward the end of his life, Mr. Leakey dreamed of building a museum of humankind, to be called Ngaren.
    — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
  • While poking fun at our species, Morris was also one of the first to denounce the blank slate view of humankind.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
  • To help keep humankind safe from evil, the Eternals re-join together to fight the Deviants.
    — Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The story takes place in the 26th century in the midst of a war between humankind and an alien collective known as the Covenant.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 30 Jan. 2022
  • One small flight for a robot, one giant leap for humankind.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2021
  • More recently, discoveries in Chad, Kenya and Ethiopia have pushed the origin of humankind back as far as seven million years.
    — Donald C. Johanson, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
  • These are people who could use their skills for the good of humankind and seem to concentrate on something that will gut the future of existing programmers and someday now-in-training software developers.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024

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