How to Use anthropomorphize in a Sentence

anthropomorphize

verb

• Whatever the reason, Stack urged onlookers to avoid anthropomorphizing the whales.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
• Here’s the thing -- the whole idea of anthropomorphizing cats is not that wild.
  — oregonlive.com, 19 July 2019
• New York is often anthropomorphized as a bad boyfriend who’s both hard to keep and hard to leave.
  — Sari Botton, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2018
• The blue, the fresh, the ever free Humans have anthropomorphized the ocean to one extent or another for about as long as humans have been around.
  — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 5 June 2019
• There’s a great danger to anthropomorphize and to be befuddled when lions don’t behave the same way.
  — National Geographic, 1 Apr. 2016
• But they haven’t been anthropomorphized in the same way as other animals.
  — Alex Shoumatoff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• But they haven’t been anthropomorphized in the same way as other animals.
  — Alex Shoumatoff, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
• The moon and even a bus also are anthropomorphized by Jessica Martin and Lawrence Weber.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• But though the instinct to anthropomorphize is innate, there are circumstances that make someone more likely to do so.
  — Arianna Rebolini, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2017
• The still lifes anthropomorphized the fruit, putting them in picture-perfect situations, like two pears watching the sunset.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
• For those of us who tend to anthropomorphize our cars, Hey Mercedes might lead to a whole new level of automotive codependence.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 23 Mar. 2020
• As solitaries continue to find their way into the hearts of coastal communities, there is a chance to put our tendency to anthropomorphize them to good use.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2020
• Critics urge their makers to anthropomorphize their products as little as possible to avoid the worst effects of a broken heart.
  — Tucker Harris, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• Which may sound like damning with faint praise, but is really just proof that the human brain can adapt to anything and will take any oppor-tuna-ty to anthropomorphize the face of a new automobile.
  — Sam Smith, Car and Driver, 25 July 2023
• There was a time when every salaried sportswriter would anthropomorphize every three-year-old filly into Joan of Arc, but those stories read like kitsch today.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
• When those devices have a face or a voice, our impulse is to further anthropomorphize them like our human relationships.
  — Pamela Pavliscak, Quartz, 2 Aug. 2019
• On the one hand, people often anthropomorphize Spot, as evidenced by the controversy over the Spot-kicking video.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 25 Sep. 2019
• Please be aware that there is an ongoing and dangerous tendency these days to anthropomorphize AI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
• Many trainers take a dim view of babying and otherwise anthropomorphizing our pets.
  — Peter Haldeman, New York Times, 4 July 2018
• Consider how much greater the tendency and temptation to anthropomorphize is going to get with the introduction of systems that do look and sound human.
  — Nir Eisikovits, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023
• Older children tend to anthropomorphize animals more than younger ones do—so maybe the effectiveness of an animal as a teacher depends on the reader's age.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2017
• Having once appeared on our cover, Otis is the world's most beloved anthropomorphized avocado.
  — Florian Nicolle, Car and Driver, 11 Dec. 2017
• Our tendency to anthropomorphize subjects would have come from the same evolutionary process.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 July 2021
• Many cartoonishly anthropomorphize the virus, giving them googly eyes and emoji-like faces.
  — Washington Post, 9 July 2020
• My goal in introducing this terminology is to try and avoid using language that seems to anthropomorphize AI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• People may also be more likely to anthropomorphize a fluent agent that has a voice, Eslami says, which could further muddy their understanding of what the technology can and can’t do.
  — WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
• Alarmingly, this might be a much too easy leap to anthropomorphize in a reverse semblance that whatever works for AGI will equally be sensible and appropriate for humans too.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Often people anthropomorphize with good intentions, to explain a concept, process or event—such as a novel virus—that is not easily understood.
  — Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2021
• Since the creation of the first chatbot in 1966, researchers have noticed that even crude conversational abilities can encourage people to anthropomorphize and place trust in software.
  — Will Knight, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2022
• Blaring news headlines often make use of catchphrases that tend to anthropomorphize the pattern-matching of generative AI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024