human being
Example Sentences
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And he was like, “Yeah, behind closed doors, we are human beings.”
From Los Angeles Times
At this moment communications with Earth will be interrupted: the four astronauts are expected to become the human beings who have traveled farthest from Earth, breaking the Apollo 13 record.
From Barron's
“Placing thousands of people in warehouses that were never intended to house human beings will only exacerbate these problems,” the letter reads.
From Salon
History as we experience it at the sharp end is the aggregation of moral choices made by individual human beings.
From Salon
They also fear they would have to cover the cost of improving infrastructure to support the thousands of human beings being packed into industrial warehouses.
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