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Recent Examples of nonhuman
The court determined that habeas corpus, a legal process traditionally used by prisoners to challenge unlawful detention, does not apply to nonhuman animals.
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Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
However, vaccines also provide important protections for our nonhuman companions, including the most common pets: dogs and cats.
—Simon F. Haeder, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2025
Even the community’s nonhuman residents—from dogs to chickens to a family’s backyard oak tree—exhibited strange symptoms.
—Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
The pain of nonhuman animals is even further out of reach.
—Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025
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Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
However, vaccines also provide important protections for our nonhuman companions, including the most common pets: dogs and cats.
—Simon F. Haeder, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2025
Even the community’s nonhuman residents—from dogs to chickens to a family’s backyard oak tree—exhibited strange symptoms.
—Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
The pain of nonhuman animals is even further out of reach.
—Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonhuman
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In two cases from Nepal, initiated in 2012 and 2014, the U.N. Human Rights Committee — an independent body that monitors compliance with international human rights law — found that cruel, inhuman treatment of human remains amounted to cruel, inhuman treatment of the family of the deceased.—
Tyler McBrien,
The Dial,
28 Jan. 2025
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The terrible beauty in his films usually came at a steep cost, in human or, rather, inhuman cruelty, violence, pathology.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025
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In his speech, Krishna also pointed to Shannon’s work building robotic mice that solved mazes as an example of his enjoyment of play within his research.—
Ayesha Javed,
TIME,
10 Feb. 2025
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The Wrong Trousers centers on suspicious penguin Feathers McGraw, who moves in with the duo and hatches a nefarious plan for the robotic Techno Trousers that Wallace has invented to walk Gromit.—
Ryan Gajewski,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 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 22 Feb. 2025.
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