humans

noun

plural of human
as in people
a member of the human race humans are the only mammals not endowed with a natural defense against the elements, such as fur or a thick hide

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Recent Examples of humans 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 Where the Madden’s bisection was fortuitous, the gods’ strike against humans set us off on an interminable search for restoration to a former wholeness. — Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026 The materials described an eventual wearable device for humans that would take three years and $70 million to develop. — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026 All of the international humanitarian law violations that have been the subject of international law claims were ordered by humans. — Kylie Jones, Vox, 25 Oct. 2026 For that to happen, this bird flu would likely need to find an intermediate host — an animal vulnerable to viruses that infect both birds and humans. — Nat Lash, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2026 Organisms not resistant to this onslaught—anything from microbes and crops to whales and humans—would experience an almost violently severe sunburn. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 And the rate at which machines replace humans will pick up as firms grow reliant on artificial intelligence. — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for humans
  1. people
  2. men
  3. creatures
  4. lives
  5. guys
  6. things
  7. individuals
  8. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of beings

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“Humans.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humans. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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