human being

Example Sentences

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"I saw those first warm words... and my eyes filled with tears. I was shaking and my friend put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'That means you're still a human being.'"

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

“It’s wrong to prevent a human being from speaking about their own history because they are not a woman, because they are not Black, or because they are not Indigenous,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Even more so than most great artists, Michael Jackson was a horrible human being.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

He described feeling "infinitesimally small, but yet this very powerful feeling as a human being, like as a group."

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Over time computers became increasingly accurate—and they were certainly a lot faster than a human being.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson