How to Use anthropogenic in a Sentence

anthropogenic

adjective
  • To their delight, the rock grew less anthropogenic by the day.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2014
  • What can these anthropogenic clouds tell us about our future?
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023
  • It could be argued that this is a new round of anthropogenic pressure that our oceans do not need.
    — Sverre Alvik, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • The researchers will next turn their study to how anthropogenic changes will impact the start of the next ice age.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
  • One camp held that the mammoth was among the first victims of anthropogenic extinction.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • This is likely because the event occurred at about one-tenth the rate of current anthropogenic climate change.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Meanwhile, new ways of talking that better reflect our anthropogenic epoch are catching on.
    — Kyla Mandel, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Francis has spent his career studying the influence of anthropogenic noise on birds.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The reason is anthropogenic change, although the exact factors are hard to assess.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 15 June 2017
  • Past research has shown that at least a third of anthropogenic methane comes from the fossil fuel industry.
    — K.e.d. Coan, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The first inclination is to make a beeline to anthropogenic climate change.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • And now, the onus is on beekeepers to protect bees from anthropogenic threats such as climate change and pesticide use.
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 31 Jan. 2023
  • By gnawing away at the old view that nonhuman animals simply serve as food, such work can counter anthropogenic views of the past.
    — Paige Madison, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Her team now wants to see how anthropogenic emissions, like sulfur dioxide, affect the ability of plants to seed clouds.
    — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • These aquatic mammals are in trouble, thanks to increasing anthropogenic threats.
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 3 July 2023
  • How will birds cope with the changing weather conditions and anthropogenic, or human, factors?
    — Rebecca McGuire, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Lockdowns were found to have caused a global halving of anthropogenic seismic vibrations.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The major anthropogenic factor is fluid withdrawal from the ground.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Our climate changes naturally, but there is an anthropogenic stimulus on top of the cycle.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Even in the midst of what scientists are calling the sixth mass extinction, caused by anthropogenic climate change, the world is teeming with life.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Noll discusses the natural and anthropogenic climate change context for the event.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Or hiring a climate science skeptic to lead a center funded to study the effects of anthropogenic climate change.
    — Michael Poliakoff, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Except, our anthropogenic footprint is quite different than anything going on when the dinosaurs were around.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • As with most anthropogenic catastrophes, the effects of climate change are compounding.
    — Porter Fox, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
  • What’s abundantly clear at the moment is that anthropogenic mass has grown unchecked and become a nefarious crust over the planet.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 15 Dec. 2020
  • About 22 percent of anthropogenic emissions arise from agriculture, forestry, and other land use.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Her mother ocean is too hot and acidic, the culprit is anthropogenic carbon dioxide; how is an awabi to measure such a thing, let alone compensate for it?
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • With waste, anthropogenic mass began outweighing biomass in 2013, plus or minus five years.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 9 Dec. 2020
  • What was beginning to happen was anthropogenic soil subsidence—the sinking of the land by human action.
    — Richard Campanella, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Sea level rise — mostly due to glacial melt largely caused by anthropogenic climate change — has been a hot button topic for the past half century.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025

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