How to Use philosophize in a Sentence

philosophize

verb
  • To philosophize, as philosophers have told us, is to learn how to live and how to die.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Fortune will be kind to our efforts to philosophize, ideate, and innovate.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Until then, head count and fund-raising were badges of honor among founders, who philosophized that bigger was better.
    — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • First, there is no particular proof that AI cannot philosophize.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Unafraid of melodrama and camp, the play raged and philosophized with operatic wit and pathos.
    — June Thomas, New York Times, 16 June 2023
  • That's just for starters, in a film that weaves together vérité footage with voiceover philosophizing from Sauper himself and clips from an assortment of archive footage.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Sagittarius encourages us to charge into the unknown, learn about our relations to others and philosophize our place in the cosmos.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The final part is a rather rambling segment philosophizing on proof of the afterlife—in line with dozens of similar texts from this era of psychical research.
    — Alice Vernon september 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Beyond glib indulgences, these suggestions allow the writer to philosophize on life’s greater meanings.
    — Courtney Tenz, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Still, Sartre’s inclination to philosophize skiing is deeply charming.
    — Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
  • As his characters cogitate and self-medicate, scheme and philosophize, his subject is less the content of their thoughts than the mind contemplating itself.
    — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
  • The post received dozens of comments, ranging from laments over the fox’s reported demise, to circle-of-life philosophizing to off-topic mentions of a certain game this weekend and where to find the best cheesesteaks.
    — Joseph A. Gambardello, Philly.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The less curious instantiations, which present the leaders’ hectoring and philosophizing at length, can start to feel misguided.
    — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Sylvia was a lifelong learner who was inquisitive, philosophizing about life and engaging in political topics.
    — courant.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • For that matter, neither do most of McCarthy’s previous human victims, who were too busy getting hacked or shot to death to see the darkness coming and philosophize about their condition.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Samsara uses its spectacular, globetrotting 70mm footage to philosophize about life on Earth, forging connections across time, space, and place.
    — Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Feb. 2026
  • These individuals must be capable of both philosophizing about code and coding philosophical insights.
    — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • In this coming-of-age tale, Mike resides with his mom and moves from job to job, pulling us with him every step, never condescending, sometimes philosophizing and only occasionally preaching.
    — Helene Stapinski, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • Not that The End of an Era is equipped to philosophize, or particularly interested in philosophizing, about pop stardom on that level.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • These futile attempts to philosophize one’s way into political relevance are a symptom of what happens when a Left retreats from activism and adopts a spectatorial approach to the problems of its country.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 6 July 2017
  • The beginning of the speech sounded like a foreign policy address, with Tillerson philosophizing about the importance of the US maintaining its historic alliances and keeping its adversaries in check.
    — Laura Koran, CNN, 16 May 2018
  • Importantly for our purposes here, Hammel’s character Karla has long been out and mostly likes to armchair-philosophize and make dry quips about Fire Island; amid a sea of earnest trans characters who go on emotional Journeys™, thank Christ for that.
    — Samantha Allen, Them., 22 Aug. 2025

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