humanlike

adjective

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as in humanoid

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Recent Examples of humanlike The story feels eerily prescient as AI continues to infiltrate everyday life, with some humans beginning to form emotional bonds with the humanlike programs in their life. — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 18 June 2026 LLMs are so seemingly humanlike, people envision computers replacing all customer service agents, summarizing or answering questions about a collection of thousands of documents, taking on the wholesale role of a data scientist or even making a company’s executive decisions. — Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026 Film, vibration, sound and light converge around a faceless, humanlike figure moving through shifting states of existence. — Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026 Through teleoperation, the robot demonstrates precise, humanlike hand control in a variety of manipulation tasks. — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Feb. 2026 The company claims Moya can replicate human micro-expressions, a feature that places it among the most humanlike robots currently under development. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026 Still, more information about the lower body is needed to learn exactly where the species fits into the evolution of humanlike posture and gait. — K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026 To some, Aschenbrenner is a rare genius who saw the moment—the coming of humanlike artificial general intelligence, China’s accelerating AI race, and the vast fortunes awaiting those who move first—more clearly than anyone else. — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for humanlike
  1. humanoid
  2. human
  3. hominid
Adjective
  • Most humanoid models run for up to four hours while sitting idle.
    — Elaine Yu,Anniek Bao, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026
  • What Roth is troubleshooting is a 35-pound humanoid sculpture emerging out the back of the dress and wrapping its arms around Roth’s upper body—a faceless specter looming over him that one armchair critic likens to something from Spirit Halloween.
    — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of humanoid
Adjective
  • What’s crucially lacking here is a particularly compelling sense of Reagan and Gorbachev as human characters.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Advances in microscopy, DNA sequencing, and genomics continue to reveal the enormous diversity of the microbial world and its central role in ecosystems, agriculture, biotechnology, and human health.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of human
Adjective
  • Over ten million years ago, long before the human species existed, our hominid ancestors adapted to metabolize alcohol.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The team used laser ablation mass spectrometry (LA-MS), a technique that uses direct micro-scale sampling to provide high-precision elemental and isotope analyses of solid materials, to scan Neanderthal molars and other hominid fossils.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2025
Definition of hominid

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“Humanlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humanlike. Accessed 16 Aug. 2026.

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