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Recent Examples of anthropic
The health system also built a general AI companion, based on the Claude family of anthropic large language models, that is currently in its pilot phase with the intention of launching next quarter.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
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
That's one of the reasons people are willing to take anthropic arguments seriously.
—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2011
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
Questions abound about how the various proposals intersect with anthropic reasoning and the infamous multiverse idea.
—Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 16 June 2019
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
Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
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
That's one of the reasons people are willing to take anthropic arguments seriously.
—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2011
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
Questions abound about how the various proposals intersect with anthropic reasoning and the infamous multiverse idea.
—Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 16 June 2019
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anthropic
anthropocentric
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Rarely does nature fit neatly into our anthropocentric categories.—
Erik Klemetti,
Discover Magazine,
12 May 2025
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Some might argue that there’s no anthropocentric bias and therefore no paradox.—
David Chauvet,
JSTOR Daily,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Anthropic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anthropic. Accessed 17 Jul. 2025.
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