humankind
Example Sentences
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His restraint suits a story in which machine-kind and humankind begin to feel shrink-wrapped together, the ghosts belabored by increasing social pressure, the humans jolted by high-voltage wires.
From Los Angeles Times
“Dragons do not feel loneliness. That is an emotion for humankind. And perhaps some of the weaker dryads.”
From Literature
We’re not rooting for her or her internet brain-rotted captors and ultimately, we leave the film barely rooting for humankind’s survival.
From Los Angeles Times
Though Stoics believed themselves part of a cosmopolis—a polity of all humankind—it was nonetheless Marcus’ duty to stop those with “simpler minds” from harming that community, writes Mr. Stephens.
Neven reels off the ways he believes this Willow quantum chip will be used "to help with many problems that humankind has now".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
