humanness
Example Sentences
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Human-created cultural products like film and writing will be positioned as most valuable, and priced accordingly as luxury goods and artworks, while elevated synthetic content will be “humanwashed” to create a veneer of faux humanness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
It’s a compelling, occasionally uneven attempt to bring the Beatles back down to Earth by illustrating the humanness of one of its members and the wife he adored.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025
"He has a deep love for people. He listens. He looks people in the eye. Sandy's humanness is my dad's humanness. I feel immensely lucky to be his son," he says.
From Salon • Sep. 27, 2024
“You feel their humanness, because what’s more human than feeling that you don’t belong?”
From Seattle Times • May 25, 2024
Iofur Raknison was even taller and bulkier than Iorek, and his face was much more mobile and expressive, with a kind of humanness in it which she had never seen in Iorek’s.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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