How to Use nonhuman in a Sentence

nonhuman

adjective
  • In short, all nonhuman life is there.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • They will always be seen as nonhuman objects.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Humans get a head-start over nonhuman spirits or creatures called yaoguai.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The frontal lobe occupies about 40% of the brain, was the last to evolve, and is much larger than that of our nonhuman primate relatives.
    — Anand Kumar, STAT, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Many cultures around the world have long thought of nonhuman animals as having something like consciousness; some even presume plants have it, too.
    — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
  • Water tests found that the channel contains nonhuman fecal DNA.
    — Adrian Rodriguez, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The blue Art Deco chairs are beloved by one and all, human and nonhuman—the dogs, naturally, being the elephants in the room.
    — Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2026
  • There is no equivalent in English, which has no word for a place that encompasses both human and nonhuman habitation.
    — María Carri, Artforum, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Their ceremonies are based on interacting with nonhuman persons.
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Soon, patients will have their blood sequenced to spot any nonhuman DNA that might signal an infectious disease.
    — Dmitri Pavlichin, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2018
  • This, the Great Chain said, was the domain inhabited by nonhuman animals.
    — Ryan Huling, Time, 7 May 2026
  • While this involves relationships between humans, human and nonhuman, nonhuman amongst each other, it is also felt in long-term impacts.
    — Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Amid the humor of any Waititi film is often a personal story about human relationships—this time it’s just told through a nonhuman being.
    — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 18 June 2026
  • The exhibition also includes more recent efforts to provide for nonhuman wants and needs, such as metal scaffolds for coral reefs, skyscrapers for birds, and playthings for octopodes.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The drug also performed well in animal models, including mice and nonhuman primates, and showed no major safety concerns in an early human trial.
    — New Atlas, 29 Dec. 2025
  • How realistic was the portrayal of communication between a human and a creature with nonhuman speech?
    — Tara Haelle, NPR, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Melding the human and nonhuman realms becomes an act of self-recognition for Gander, granting a deeper understanding of himself and the setting of his birth.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Outbreaks typically develop in areas of Africa, starting in species like antelope, fruit bats and nonhuman primates.
    — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
  • Laboratory experiments on nonhuman primates suggest that even a single virus may be enough to trigger a fatal infection.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
  • What Ginsberg successfully brings into the present is a procedure to involve nonhuman stakeholders.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • In large enterprises, nonhuman identities outnumber human users by an order of magnitude.
    — Hope Frank, Forbes.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • As the number of nonhuman identities in the enterprise grows, the assumptions underlying identity security need to grow with it.
    — Ariel Zamir, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Some researchers suggested that goodbyes required cognitive abilities that many nonhuman animals might lack, such as the capacity to imagine and plan for the future.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026
  • In Florida, raw milk can be sold only for nonhuman consumption, such as pet food, and containers of raw milk sold in the state must be clearly labeled that the raw milk is for animal consumption only.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 5 Aug. 2025
  • To investigate whether this understanding extends to nonhuman agents, researchers compared infants’ responses to a human and a humanoid robot.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 1 June 2026
  • Many Americans consider their cats, dogs, tortoises or other animals to be part of their family, and their spending on those nonhuman relatives is immense.
    — Allison Anna Tait, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Despite the geopolitical and financial constraints, the sea-level canal studies employed hundreds of researchers who increased knowledge of the isthmus and its human and nonhuman inhabitants.
    — The Conversation, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Despite the geopolitical and financial constraints, the sea-level canal studies employed hundreds of researchers who increased knowledge of the isthmus and its human and nonhuman inhabitants.
    — Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The criterion of self-consciousness, meanwhile, is of no use for the practical task of distinguishing between human and nonhuman digital activity.
    — Andrey Mir, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
  • More recently, there’s a rupture that either explicitly or implicitly involves reevaluation of the design process from nonhuman perspectives.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025

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