How to Use anthropocentric in a Sentence

anthropocentric

adjective

• But take another step back and the picture is less anthropocentric and even more dire.
  — David Gessner, Outside Online, 6 Aug. 2020
• Why some parrots thrive in anthropocentric landscapes while others are on the cusp of oblivion has yet to be determined.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2016
• Which presents quite a question: How in the heck did Herzing figure out a way to both not teach the dolphins an anthropocentric language and ensure the language was speakable by both species?
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2011
• Contrary to our anthropocentric view of the world in which humans are deemed more important than other living beings, the Sápara see themselves as part of nature.
  — Nicole Heimann, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• The Tahoe bears are almost too on the nose: Gushing over animals driven to extremes fits with our anthropocentric attitude toward wildlife.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 16 July 2021
• The costs related to forests and other non-anthropocentric ecosystems are almost absent.
  — Sahana Ghosh, Quartz, 10 May 2022
• Not using the coordinates we’ve been handed by human culture: the self-flattering, narcissistic, anthropocentric fantasies of a world made for us, in our image.
  — Yael Martínez, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
• As radical as Matta-Clark was in his time, revealing how the urban landscape was blighted by property laws and the profit motive of real estate, his perspective was manifestly anthropocentric.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• Her reaction mimicked the befuddlement of countless anthropocentric minds who have puzzled over this discrepancy since scientists began comparing species’ genomes more than 70 years ago.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2017
• Finally, going back to the distinction between types of selection, the whole argument is necessarily anthropocentric.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2011
• But in other ways, the climate movement’s scope has narrowed, mainstreaming its message by rendering it more mathematical and anthropocentric—paradoxically more consistent with the capitalist mindset that has brought us here.
  — Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2020
• Setting aside that the perception of difference probably has some anthropocentric bias (i.e., would an alien think that chimpanzees and humans are actually surprisingly different in light of their phylogenetic similarities?
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2011
• Plus, if applied with suitable leverage and departmental support, this is a force strong enough to counterbalance the historical tendency toward anthropocentric and ethnocentric approaches that tend to advantage narrow learner self-interest.
  — Amandeep Midha, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• In short, social learning does give an edge to anticipatory, holistic, egalitarian, and non-anthropocentric planning processes and decisions that favor continual quality of skill-building for all.
  — Amandeep Midha, Forbes, 18 May 2021

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024