How to Use Anthropocene in a Sentence

Anthropocene

noun
  • The Anthropocene is a commentary on our scales of time as well as space.
    — B. R. Cohen, Longreads, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The desert — churned, sucked and acid-washed — rests in these graveyards of the Anthropocene.
    — Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
  • The desert — churned, sucked, and acid-washed — rests in these graveyards of the Anthropocene.
    — Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
  • Grimes shared her last album, Miss Anthropocene, in 2020.
    — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Our current epoch, scientists argue, is called the Anthropocene.
    — B. R. Cohen, Longreads, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The Anthropocene is a paradigm for thinking about our place in Earth history.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
  • There was this documentary called ‘Anthropocene,’ which was the initial inspiration for this.
    — Kathleen Rellihan, Outside, 22 Oct. 2025
  • And, notes Fredriksen, in the big picture disasters of the Anthropocene, even glimmers are important.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 6 July 2026
  • The idea of the Anthropocene is a prism to understand our influence on global biodiversity.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
  • That there will be a fossil signal of the Anthropocene is already certain and irreversible, a fait accompli; what exactly that signal will say is uncertain and still to be decided.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
  • What follows is an incisive and beautiful meditation on imagination and intention in the Anthropocene.
    — Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The Anthropocene will mark a permanent geological and paleontological boundary in the rock record.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
  • So the question is why and how our moment of—pick your poison—late capitalism, permanent emergency, the death of the Anthropocene—has turned to an old form to describe the oxymoronic simultaneity of pathos and bathos, horror and the risible.
    — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026
  • Like geologists dividing the Quaternary period into a Pleistocene and a Holocene, and now, possibly, an Anthropocene.
    — B. R. Cohen, Longreads, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Their stories weave together fallout, the Cold War and secret government agencies, international aid workers and scientists, and everyday life in the Anthropocene.
    — Magdalena Stawkowski, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Even if the engineering works according to plan – somehow avoiding the unforeseen consequences of most technologies – designers will only ever manage to keep up with others whose designs advance the Anthropocene at the behest of capitalism.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • His more recent books have been nonfiction, including The Anthropocene Reviewed and Everything Is Tuberculosis.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
  • In the years between fiction releases, Green turned to nonfiction, publishing The Anthropocene Reviewed and Everything Is Tuberculosis.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Post-Soviet, Anthropocene, and post-independence frameworks can be overdetermined by these same spatial and political logics, translating them into periodizations that claim to mark historical breaks while reproducing their underlying assumptions.
    — Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Henrik Österblom, Director of the Anthropocene Lab at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, described research showing how a relatively small number of dominant corporations can shape entire industries.
    — Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • In 2024, after more than ten years of consideration, and contrary to the recommendation of its own Anthropocene Working Group, the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy voted against formally adopting the Anthropocene as our new epoch.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026

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