Thesaurus results for HUMANKINDS

humankinds

noun

plural of humankind

as in worlds

human beings in general all humankind shares the desire for peace

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the human race perhaps someday humankind will find the key that unlocks the mystery of the universe

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The interesting part for us is finding the point where those two worlds can coexist naturally.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026
Astronomers are now beginning to discover very many of these free-floating worlds.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026

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The phenomenon may have a special appeal to youth in the region due to a culture of assembling in public areas, Frederick Luis Aldama, a humanities professor at the University of Texas at Austin, told CNN.

— Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
Harper arrived at Bates College in Maine in 2020 as an idealistic new PhD in comparative literature, grateful for the tenure-track job that promised him that rarest of prizes these days — a career in the humanities.

— Gary Rosen, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of humanities

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Another 13 people were wounded on downtown Sacramento’s K Street and 10th Street, in what became the deadliest mass shooting in the city’s history.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
Organizers say more than 125,000 people are expected throughout the event, bringing in millions of dollars for the local economy.

— Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 June 2026

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More than half all greenhouse gases produced by humans throughout history have been released into the atmosphere over 50 years.

— Peter Prengaman, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
Instead of law enforcement, policing shifts to violent secure against mathematical possibility by acting against living humans now.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026

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