Example Sentences

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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

We shall, of course, continue to think anthropomorphically of God; our thought will thus inevitably fall short of the Reality, but it will be truer than if we did not think of Him at all.

From Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive by Warschauer, Joseph