human race
Example Sentences
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"It is just down to me now. I am a bit like Doctor Who, in that it is all down to me to save the human race."
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Musk describes that ambition as essential to the long-term survival of the human race, though most experts see it as being at least decades away.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
It’s a quintessential Joan Didion image: She imagines the day after the human race is gone, capturing both apocalyptic self-annihilation and wonder at the tremendous efforts we make to do something meaningful with our time.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
In comingling everyone’s knowledge and expertise, including that of the hundreds of millions who don’t survive the changeover, the new, singularly minded human race operates under the firm belief that it has found true happiness.
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025
A tiny change in its genetic code, and it might turn into a cough and take out the human race.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
