How to Use anthropomorphize in a Sentence
anthropomorphize
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Here’s the thing -- the whole idea of anthropomorphizing cats is not that wild.
—oregonlive.com, 19 July 2019
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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
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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
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There’s a great danger to anthropomorphize and to be befuddled when lions don’t behave the same way.
—National Geographic, 1 Apr. 2016
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But they haven’t been anthropomorphized in the same way as other animals.
—Alex Shoumatoff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
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But they haven’t been anthropomorphized in the same way as other animals.
—Alex Shoumatoff, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
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The moon and even a bus also are anthropomorphized by Jessica Martin and Lawrence Weber.
—Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 31 Oct. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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On the one hand, people often anthropomorphize Spot, as evidenced by the controversy over the Spot-kicking video.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 25 Sep. 2019
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Please be aware that there is an ongoing and dangerous tendency these days to anthropomorphize AI.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
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Many trainers take a dim view of babying and otherwise anthropomorphizing our pets.
—Peter Haldeman, New York Times, 4 July 2018
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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
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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
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Having once appeared on our cover, Otis is the world's most beloved anthropomorphized avocado.
—Florian Nicolle, Car and Driver, 11 Dec. 2017
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Our tendency to anthropomorphize subjects would have come from the same evolutionary process.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 July 2021
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Many cartoonishly anthropomorphize the virus, giving them googly eyes and emoji-like faces.
—Washington Post, 9 July 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Blaring news headlines often make use of catchphrases that tend to anthropomorphize the pattern-matching of generative AI.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
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There’s a debate raging in the AI industry about whether companies should anthropomorphize chatbots with human personas.
—Alex Heath, The Verge, 19 Apr. 2023
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Further anthropomorphizing her work, Stout’s team frequently refers to things by quirky names that occasionally become their titles.
—Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2023
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