inhumane
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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
In a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai, those workers said they wanted to avoid AI being used “in inhumane or extremely harmful ways,” such as for lethal weapons or mass surveillance.
From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026
One point that Trump officials, lawmakers and advocates for Afghan allies agree on: Keeping Afghans trapped in Camp As Sayliyah in perpetuity is inhumane.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
But officials said the new Norwalk campus isn’t a return to the inhumane conditions of decades past.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 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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