human being
Example Sentences
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"How someone could live with themselves for doing something like that to another human being is beyond me."
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
He’d be safe in the company of another human being who might cover him with a blanket and kiss him on the forehead, a gesture I generally reserve for my cats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Meanwhile, job seekers say they are doing what they can to get past applicant-tracking systems so they can get to a human being.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
The movie is more condensed than the novel; Hitchcock accepted that the film medium cannot access the inner thoughts of a human being, and so significant swaths of the book were excised.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
I was pretty well convinced that the big monkey could do anything a human being could do.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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