How to Use metaphysic in a Sentence

metaphysic

noun
  • Its momentum is as murky as its metaphysics.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The scope of his work involves words and movement and certainly a kind of metaphysics.
    — Ben Ratliff, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2016
  • Some of this is fun, though there’s a way that all the floating combat metaphysics ends up blanding out the stakes, or maybe just the rules.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 May 2026
  • That same technology has nudged receipts into the realm of metaphysics.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Though physics, philosophy and metaphysics have all grappled with the concept of time, we are still confounded by it.
    — Priyamvada Natarajan, WSJ, 1 June 2018
  • His theology drags metaphysics back into the moral arena.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The trouble with that is that there are parts of the metaphysics of QBism that even de Finetti wouldn’t accept!
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2015
  • Well, if politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from metaphysics.
    — Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, National Review, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Common belief argues that germs cause disease, but metaphysics tells a different story.
    — Evan Mehlenbacher, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2025
  • His trademark soul-searching about physics and metaphysics, politics and academia, sin and knowledge, spirit and matter, rings out in the classic, complex way.
    — Katie Ward Beim-Esche, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Policies were justified not with reference to morality or metaphysics but with citations of white papers.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Strike out on your own in this 7 year cycle, explore technology, metaphysics, a dream job, and consider that your work can be divinely inspired.
    — Rebecca Gordon, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 May 2018
  • Or it has been cast as a tragedy, in which the sudden death of his beloved wife, Anna, triggered in him a lifelong hatred of metaphysics and the wish to create his own ersatz-religion.
    — Christoph Irmscher, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • By Lowery’s loopy metaphysics, this sends the ghost back to the time of European settlement of the American frontier.
    — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 5 July 2017
  • In metaphysics, disease is understood to be fears and false beliefs objectified physically.
    — Evan Mehlenbacher, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2025
  • This argument marks a remarkable slide from history into organicist metaphysics.
    — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • The Critique is dense, often desperate, as Kant tried to salvage what was vital in metaphysics while exposing its illusions.
    — Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The congregation uses prayers that omit any mention of God, and its teachings tend to emphasize science and human reason above spirit or metaphysics.
    — Mark Oppenheimer, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The series, which features recurring characters as well as stand-alone stories, plays fast and loose with metaphysics, laws of time and space, and conventional storytelling formats.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Spielberg himself is palpably in the grip of its overwhelming emotional power, its combination of metaphysics and theatre.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 16 June 2026
  • Occasionally metaphysics invades politics, to the surprise even of metaphysicians like me.
    — Crispin Sartwell, WSJ, 5 May 2017
  • The book is a romance, a thriller and a meditation on geopolitical conundrums, ideology, science and metaphysics.
    — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
  • His work explores how materiality and semiotics influence notions of the body, metaphysics, and diverse cosmologies.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
  • His work explores how materiality and semiotics influence notions of the body, metaphysics, and diverse cosmologies.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
  • His work explores how materiality and semiotics influence notions of the body, metaphysics, and diverse cosmologies.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Aristotle, a Greek philosopher and scientist, made lasting contributions in the fields of ethics, metaphysics and biology.
    — Pat Disabato, Daily Southtown, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Conversation spiralled, with users making arguments about Cartesian metaphysics and quoting Socrates.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Ibn Khaldun only criticized Aristotle’s metaphysics, not the entirety of his enormous corpus.
    — WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Either way, as the Western traditions moved from myths to metaphysics, the question of God's culpability in evil became more complicated.
    — Daniel Burke, CNN, 8 Oct. 2017
  • If people hunger for metaphysics and traditional churches hesitate to engage technological wonder head-on, alternative liturgies will rush to fill the gap.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025

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