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
  • Some might argue that there’s no anthropocentric bias and therefore no paradox.
    — David Chauvet, JSTOR Daily, 26 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Readers might think that from the perspective of the dog my engagement with its gaze is naively anthropocentric.
    — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • The customary anthropocentric viewpoint is that humans prevail over all else.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • The costs related to forests and other non-anthropocentric ecosystems are almost absent.
    — Sahana Ghosh, Quartz, 10 May 2022
  • An older protester in a puffy orange jacket chided him for being too anthropocentric.
    — Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • What Bell tests allow physicists to do is remove the bias of anthropocentric aesthetic judgments from the equation.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Rarely does nature fit neatly into our anthropocentric categories.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2025
  • As if the dogs were at fault for this utterly anthropocentric religious affiliation.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Botany is its ally, capturing its stories and flattening its narratives through an anthropocentric perspective.
    — Photovogue, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2025
  • This anthropocentric perspective was entrenched in 1866, when German scientist Ernst Haeckel drew one of the first trees of life.
    — Kevin Omland, The Conversation, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The idea that consciousness emerges naturally alongside intelligence could be an anthropocentric distortion.
    — Big Think, 24 June 2024
  • This bias was more pronounced among people with stronger anthropocentric creativity beliefs, who believe that creativity is a uniquely human characteristic.
    — Kwame Christian, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Finally, going back to the distinction between types of selection, the whole argument is necessarily anthropocentric.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2011
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Their anthropocentric perspective has increased their accessibility while diminishing their impact.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Traditionally, assessing the quality of different habitats and marine environments is done from an anthropocentric perspective.
    — Bycatherine Offord, science.org, 7 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The inherent anthropocentric bias in people highlights the importance of investing in employees' communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.
    — Kwame Christian, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • If wanting to ascribe feelings to the nonhuman world is an anthropocentric crime, the opposite—failure to ascribe feelings to animals, or to respond creatively to plants—seems much worse, entailing an inert, clockwork universe of mechanistic automata, in which humans are the only conscious actors.
    — Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026
  • Enlightenment humanism is generally understood as anthropocentric, whereas Christianity is theocentric.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • In this week’s Mini Philosophy interview, anthropologist Christine Webb argues that a lot of science research is shaped by human exceptionalism, reinforcing biases and anthropocentric assumptions.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 8 Oct. 2025

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