anthropocentric

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Recent Examples of anthropocentric The customary anthropocentric viewpoint is that humans prevail over all else. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026 An older protester in a puffy orange jacket chided him for being too anthropocentric. — Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026 This anthropocentric perspective was entrenched in 1866, when German scientist Ernst Haeckel drew one of the first trees of life. — Kevin Omland, The Conversation, 9 Feb. 2026 In this week’s Mini Philosophy interview, anthropologist Christine Webb argues that a lot of science research is shaped by human exceptionalism, reinforcing biases and anthropocentric assumptions. — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 8 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for anthropocentric
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  1. anthropic
  2. unspiritual
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  • 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
Definition of anthropic
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  • When the 1990s brought an emphasis on art being viewed as unspiritual, unpoetical, socioeconomic evidence, the perspective on Cole changed.
    — HOLLAND COTTER, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
Definition of unspiritual

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“Anthropocentric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anthropocentric. Accessed 8 Oct. 2026.

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