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Meanings of persons in English
Common name of Homo sapiens, unique extant species of the genus Homo.
A person (plural people or persons) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.
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Examples for "people"
Examples for "people"
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Health professionals deal with people's personal health information every day, Bloomfield said.
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Health researchers say living in such conditions can damage young people's health.
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Of course, people need housing, they need food, they need good education.
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You cry 'freedom,' but mean 'equal.' You think people really want either?
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However, he said helping people to make good choices remains a challenge.
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The possible effect on human health is a problem of current debate.
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However, research into human health effects has returned inconsistent and inconclusive results.
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Energy use is central to human society and provides many health benefits.
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The annual grants help nonprofits and local governments aid human trafficking victims.
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Question of the Week: Are Europe's human rights laws now under threat?
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The humans left behind on Earth, or 'Mars' - What is 'Mars'?
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Whether that be for the animals, the land, and of course, humans.
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In this view of nature, everything humans do is natural, including technology.
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Ten thousand years ago, humans had fought a war against Forerunners-andlost.
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Money simply exists as a useful way for humans to trade things.
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The Earth had given him the power to Choose and protect mankind.
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I hope for help from the Lord of power, Creator of mankind.
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Background: Malocclusion is one of the most common dental problems in mankind.
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He later said, I used to study people and mankind disappointed me.
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Would you make products to help mankind, to fight illness and disease?
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It's one question that has fascinated humankind since the beginning of time.
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It seemed a full-blown war somewhere far beyond the ken of humankind.
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But of course, the crowning achievement for this planet to-date is humankind.
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Great changes are brewing that will shape and twist all of humankind.
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Bees are essential for humankind's survival, as our food depends on pollination.
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And at some level of development in between is modern-day homo sapiens.
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Meanwhile, the heidelbergensis remaining in Africa evolved into homo sapiens.
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Any strain of homo sapiens who were not would have died out millennia ago.
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I am the last man on earth, the sole surviving specimen of homo sapiens.
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Unfortunately, environmentalism is one of the greatest marketing flops in the history of homo sapiens.
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As Lenny Kaye said: 'Les Paul was a really special human being'.
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Not the human being, as you so rightly said a moment ago.
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I believe in the human being, mind and flesh; form and soul.
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Not a human being was in sight; and neither were the dogs.
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We're just seeing the beginning of Obama's power as a human being.
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The prime minister himself acknowledged the issue last year after he interrupted a woman who used the word "mankind," saying he preferred "peoplekind" instead.
Usage of persons in English
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OPINION: Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
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We have also compared these groups with persons in good physical health.
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Say: sixty persons per car, an average of sixty cars per train.
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Some ten million persons in the Soviet are subject to cumpulsory work.
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Other missing- persons cases have also captured our imagination in recent years.
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Background: syncope is an important, but underestimated clinical problem in older persons.
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Conclusions: Health-related quality-of-life and self-rated health predict mortality in persons with diabetes.
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However, data to support such recommendations in older persons are virtually nonexistent.
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Conclusions: Overall, persons experiencing MSK pain had a higher risk of mortality.
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The 17 controls were healthy persons who visited our health promotion center.
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He was already working missing persons reports with the St. Lambert police.
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Results were similar when we excluded persons with possible mild cognitive impairment.
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But the choice makes sense also in terms of the persons involved.
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The grenade exploded causing injuries to 16 persons, a police statement said.
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Nowhere was there any great number of persons of marked racial character.
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But the book is far more than a literary missing persons list.
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