How to Use teleology in a Sentence

teleology

noun

• The question sums up why the hopeful teleology should nag at us: there are still people who’ve been left ashore.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Longreads, 29 Mar. 2018
• What had happened was one story, the story of communism, the teleology of communism had turned out not to be true.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 7 Mar. 2017
• Homer’s heroes lack the sense of national destiny, of teleology, that fills Virgil’s poem.
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
• Committed to a teleology of progress, albeit open to the reality of historical irony, this liberalism lacks a visceral sense of the tragic.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 7 Feb. 2017
• Which is what, some believe, happened to Thomas Aquinas, the medieval theologian who tried (and largely succeeded) to fit the entire world into a synthesis of Christian revelation and Aristotelian teleology.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Dec. 2017
• Similarly, the transformative forward-thrust of time in Boyne’s narrative, which orders the novel’s very structure — each chapter break accounts for seven years in Cyril’s life — suggests a kind of progressive teleology.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Longreads, 29 Mar. 2018
• The Weberian analysis then offers no relief from that process, only a fatalism without a teleology.
  — George Blaustein, The New Republic, 2 July 2020
• The various models proposed for the mechanism of evolution, such as Lamarckian evolution, orthogenesis, and use-disuse, all implied some level of teleology, that there was a directionality inherent in the process.
  — Mano Singham, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2021
• His early preoccupation with initial cosmic conditions led Barrow to reinstate in physical science the ancient philosophical concept of teleology, which (in its various guises) takes into account final as well as initial states.
  — Paul Davies, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2020