HUMAN BEINGS Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

human beings

noun

plural of human being

as in lives

a member of the human race we're all human beings, regardless of our differences

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Recent Examples of human beings Our job, before and after AI, is building safe and useful products for human beings, and engineers are still best suited for that. — Brian Jenney, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2026 Many conservationists argue that living species possess an inherent right to exist independent of their usefulness to human beings. — David Ginsburg, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026 Work that strips human beings of dignity is often work that no longer requires distinctly human qualities at all. — Scott Levenson, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026 In other words, human beings were setting rent prices based on intuition or local knowledge, not algorithmic optimization. — Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026 American psychologist William James noted that human beings are creatures of habit. — Vinesh Sukumaran, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 Any condiment ever devised by human beings may be acquired there. — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Ultimately, the investigation is a pretext to bring many monstrous human beings to the fore, right? — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026 The new results, which have previously eluded human beings, span many corners of mathematics, from algebra to geometry to differential equations. — Miriam Waldvogel, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2026

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Noun

The pitch reflects a broader vision for moving health care beyond hospitals and doctors’ offices and into patients’ daily lives — which is where wireless connectivity comes in.

— Megan R. Wilson, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026
Chris Pratt is shedding light on the reality of raising four kids in Hollywood while keeping his Christian faith present in their lives.

— Janelle Ash , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of lives

Noun

Women tolerate heat better than men and can sit in a sauna, absorb heat and vasodilate, triggering heat shock protein responses.

— Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2026
The diaper brand Coterie is running an ad in Golf Digest, whose readership is 75% men.

— Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of men

Noun

Born in 1888, Jim Casey spent his life, starting at the tender age of eleven, thinking about how to deliver things more efficiently.

— Marc Levinson, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026
New York — Brett Smiley was elected mayor of Providence in 2022 on a pledge to build more housing and get things done in Rhode Island’s capital city.

— Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of things

Noun

Another 13 people were wounded on downtown Sacramento’s K Street and 10th Street, in what became the deadliest mass shooting in the city’s history.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
Organizers say more than 125,000 people are expected throughout the event, bringing in millions of dollars for the local economy.

— Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 June 2026

Definition of people

Noun

Those were the guys that brought home the Astros’ first World Series championship, as Henderson’s Brewers are trying to do for Milwaukee.

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Milwaukee also developed such top guys as Brice Turang (1st round), Garrett Mitchell (1st round), Sal Frelick (1st round) and Cooper Pratt (6th round), among others.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of guys

Noun

Other witnesses reported smaller, hairy creatures, a prehistoric-looking bird and a worm allegedly measuring 8 feet long.

— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
But the most important thing to understand about farm animal transportation is that these creatures are not handled like passengers, the way you or I would be treated on a long-distance trip.

— Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of creatures

Noun

Because food can be scarce there and people fear theft, individuals will store rice in their dirt-floor homes, Wagner says, allowing close contact with the rats that infest the island.

— Faye Flam, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026
At a news conference Monday, the country’s director of public security, Obeidallah Maaytah, said that law enforcement tracked down the individuals involved in that attack and, after a shootout, managed to arrest them and seize their weapons.

— Aoife Walsh, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of individuals

Noun

Older Armenian beliefs imagined that supernatural beings could threaten the woman after childbirth or harm her baby.

— Shushan Karapetian, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026
Dagen McDowell, Taylor Riggs, and Brian Brenberg debate if chatbots are treated like moral beings and why users exhibit weird behavior.

— Staff, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026

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