anthropic

variants or anthropical
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Recent Examples of anthropic Larger enterprise enterprises will still be served by large-enterprise-class anthropic partners. Terdawn Deboe, Forbes.com, 16 June 2026 With natural habitats disappearing all the time, finding a way to shelter within anthropic culture might be a good strategy. Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024 Weinberg largely avoided the many boring diatribes surrounding the anthropic principle that followed, contenting himself with having pragmatically used anthropic reasoning to make a correct prediction about nature. Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2021 The question is the anthropic effect on global warming, and that, obviously, is still a matter of discussion. Jim Daley, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2019 Questions abound about how the various proposals intersect with anthropic reasoning and the infamous multiverse idea. Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 16 June 2019 That's one of the reasons people are willing to take anthropic arguments seriously. Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2011
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anthropic
anthropocentric
Adjective
  • Readers might think that from the perspective of the dog my engagement with its gaze is naively anthropocentric.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • Enlightenment humanism is generally understood as anthropocentric, whereas Christianity is theocentric.
    Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026

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“Anthropic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anthropic. Accessed 10 Aug. 2026.

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