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  • Reports describe the killer as "nonhumanoid" with "long claws and long fangs."

    Bloodsucker? 2008

  • No one expected USCOL to learn the native tongues of bugs and fungi; the linguists who believed no human would ever be able to learn a nonhumanoid language had written a dozen articles explaining that it was impossible, and why.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • According to the archives, two thousand years ago my people fought a war against a nonhumanoid race called the Vorel.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS Dean Wesley Smith 1998

  • According to the archives, two thousand years ago my people fought a war against a nonhumanoid race called the Vorel.

    STRANGE NEW WORLDS Dean Wesley Smith 1998

  • According to Nepe, planets colonized by nonhumanoid creatures that found themselves in the human sector of the galaxy were being exploited and reduced just as savagely; there was no special virtue in being human, when it came to galactic power tides.

    Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990

  • According to Nepe, planets colonized by nonhumanoid creatures that found themselves in the human sector of the galaxy were being exploited and reduced just as savagely; there was no special virtue in being human, when it came to galactic power tides.

    Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990

  • To find your way through it is far more complicated than in nonhumanoid civilizations.

    Hard to be a god Strugatski, Arkadi & Strugatski, Boris 1973

  • They were nonhumanoid, though they did walk erect.

    Dread Companion Norton, Andre 1970

  • The people who had been led to feel powerful were attracted by the humanoid machine and thought it lower in risk than the nonhumanoid machine, while the powerless people found the humanoid machine unattractive and risky.

    NYT > Home Page By ALEX MINDLIN 2011

  • I’m merely saying that it is well understood—at least by most of the Federation’s nonhumanoid sentients—that Starfleet’s much-publicized prohibition against xenophobia is a work in progress, at best.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

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