inhumane
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One new requirement asked for an inhumane placebo control group, to which no physician could agree.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
He added that the WHO's view was that to keep people on board the ship during the quarantine period "would have been inhumane, and unnecessary".
From BBC • May 12, 2026
In November last year, US bishops published an unprecedented letter denouncing as "inhumane" new curbs on asylum rights in the United States.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
Hernandez is a longtime opponent of 41.18, calling it ineffective and inhumane.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
In the late nineteenth century, alarmed by the inhumane treatment of incarcerated people suffering from mental illness, Dorothea Dix and Reverend Louis Dwight led a successful campaign to get the mentally ill out of prison.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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