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Could putting ourselves in another animal’s shoes — anthropomorphically speaking — actually help us understand them better?
From Salon ● May 12, 2025
“The virus, speaking anthropomorphically, just wants to spread and have its genes replicated,” said Adalja.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2021
It’s possible to read these anthropomorphically, as walking or marching figures, and they give the painting a powerful left-to-right dynamic.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 29, 2019
Some biologists anthropomorphically call this “the prisoner effect.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2010
The Greek gods, with their anthropomorphically emotional characters, entered intimately and sympathetically into human life, communal and individual.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow
