HUMANOIDS Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

humanoids

noun

plural of humanoid

as in humans

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Recent Examples of humanoids Building better humanoids Alongside Dyno, VinDynamics is showcasing a range of technologies that form the building blocks of its humanoid robotics platform. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 2 June 2026

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Noun

As organizations determine which activities belong to humans and which can be delegated to intelligent systems, work is being redesigned.

— Jo Debecker, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Professor Frink reanimates his formerly deceased father after winning the Nobel Prize, but the elder Frink, not content with his current body, steals parts and organs from other humans.

— Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of humans

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

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

Definition of beings

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

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

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

Among them, despite the doctors’ suspicions, 80% did not turn out to have evidence of tumors in their specimens, says Cercek.

— Alice Park, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
Building on a legacy The mission to the Martian moons builds on Japan’s success in leading the Hayabusa and Hayabusa 2 missions, the world’s first two spacecraft to bring back pristine specimens from asteroids.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026

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