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Recent Examples of humanely
To study how the birds tap, the researchers first humanely captured eight wild Downy Woodpeckers and carefully inserted electrodes into their muscles in the laboratory.
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Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 2 Jan. 2026
The goal of the effort is to locate reproductive female pythons and then humanely euthanize them, preventing further reproduction.
—Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
Many contests maintain that the frogs can be stimulated humanely to jump, such as someone blowing on them or clapping their hands behind them.
—Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 26 Dec. 2025
The dog was humanely euthanized following a risk assessment by veterinarians and animal behavior specialists, and clinical tests by Cook County later confirmed the dog had rabies.
—Noel Brennan, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
Fourteen were found dead, three had to be humanely euthanized due to the severity of their conditions, and four more died after the rescue as a result of pre-existing illnesses.
—Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
Sheriff’s officials said three additional animals could not be saved and were humanely euthanized by a veterinary specialist.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 14 Dec. 2025
Farm operators say the meat tastes better because the birds eat well and are treated humanely.
—Randy Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Nov. 2025
Many people believe that animals with higher intelligence deserve to be treated more humanely, or at least not used for food.
—F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 22 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for humanely
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These days, Christmas movies, broadly and charitably defined, seem to be synonymous with the brassy, hokey, sickly sweet sort of fare that has a permanent home on the Hallmark Channel and is in perpetual rotation on Netflix.—
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In effect, this is just a trope of mondo films — or, less charitably, mockumentaries.—
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Giving altruistically may be unrealistic when the sun confronts Neptune.—
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But sellers do not offer lower prices to some consumers altruistically.—
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Vance Joseph tried outfitting himself in a modest tone, even if his unit hasn’t exactly acted benevolently toward its training camp counterpart.—
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Mamdani magnanimously noted the president’s high support in 2024 for a Republican in New York.—
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Whitmore was benched — not as a punishment but as a reaffirmation of team standards such as playing with effort, being competitive at all times, playing with physicality (especially on defense), playing smart basketball and playing unselfishly.—
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Nor from showing how Bull unselfishly and painfully gets in the way when preventing Sterling from mounting his beloved Honey.—
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Our partners over there are looking for everyday heroes, like teachers, first responders, heck, anyone who has selflessly served others.—
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This part of the story is a story in itself, but the wars and the result left two-thirds of the recruits dead and rendered Rusty’s appendages useless as he selflessly piloted night and day to fight off every rogue machine.—
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With this introduction of a hapless protagonist not entirely managing to live her best life, Brett Haley‘s film cheerfully speaks both the literary and cinematic language of romantic comedy — and won’t seek to subvert or elevate it in the two hours that follow.—
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Unable to roll the map out, its creators cheerfully realize that the country itself can serve as its own map.—
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But the two began chatting amiably in an all-too-rare display of across-the-divide grace.—
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Parker has always seemed to amiably float along in his retro-futurist space cloud.—
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“Humanely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humanely. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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