How to Use eugenicist in a Sentence

eugenicist

noun
  • Alex Jones endures, broadcasting his claims that the virus is both a eugenicist plot and a myth.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 13 May 2020
  • That’s what the eugenicists were trying to answer in advance.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
  • But there's no point in diminishing the fact that Hamilton was a full-spectrum eugenicist.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2013
  • By the time the case made its way to the desk of Justice Holmes, himself an eager eugenicist, readers are hardly surprised by his chilling opinion.
    Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2016
  • In the world of academics, eugenicists and race theorists were also at the height of their popularity.
    Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 22 May 2017
  • As Citylab’s Brentin Mock wrote last year, Grant was also a eugenicist and white supremacist.
    Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 7 June 2017
  • With Holmes’s approval, eugenicist policies thrived in the United States for a decade, until at last revulsion at Nazi atrocities produced a backlash.
    John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 1 Oct. 2019
  • At worst, high school courses are still teaching things that race theorists and eugenicists from a century ago would have understood and applauded.
    Charles King, Time, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The centuries-long cultural campaign in favor of procreation is one side of a historically eugenicist coin, and the other is even darker.
    Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • According to that narrative, Asperger’s diagnosis saved children from the regime’s eugenicists, amounting to a kind of Schindler’s list.
    Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 9 May 2018
  • How did fantasy, this whitest of literary genres, plagued by a history of eugenicist and racist ideas, produce this unlikely, fierce standom?
    Namwali Serpell, New York Times, 6 June 2019
  • No one would dare suggest that feminist icon Margaret Sanger’s name be removed from awards, dinners, or monuments, given that by any modern standard she would be classified as a racist eugenicist.
    Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 June 2019
  • Nazism in Europe was underlaid by an intricate matrix of racist, eugenicist and nationalist ideas.
    Aomar Boum, The Conversation, 15 Nov. 2022
  • California’s Save the Redwoods League was founded in 1918 by eugenicists who explicitly linked the protection of the environment with the preservation of racial purity.
    Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 18 May 2020
  • One of the primary examples would be [prominent eugenicist] Harry Laughlin.
    Anna Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2020
  • Fibiger’s discovery was found to be entirely false, and Wagner-Jauregg (a staunch eugenicist) basically treated syphilis patients by infecting them with malaria, resulting in the deaths of 15 percent of those treated.
    Devang Mehta, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Gifford Pinchot, who crystallized American conservationist thought in the 1900's, was a known eugenicist.
    Amal Ahmed, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The debates around the commemoration of Fisher can be summarized by whether his identifiers—statistician, geneticist, and eugenicist—can or should be separated.
    C. Brandon Ogbunu, Scientific American, 12 June 2020
  • Previously, the highest annual award of the society was named after William Allan, a known eugenicist who supported sterilizations.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Loomis was an idealist, but also a eugenicist; MH, a radical leader who has supposedly renounced materialism, wears expensive jeans and motorcycle boots and owns a lake house.
    Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • The original hair type categorization system was developed in the early 1900s by Eugen Fischer, a Nazi German scientist and ardent eugenicist.
    Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • These interactions were not properly accounted for by the eugenicist Ronald Fisher who developed the original twin studies method in 1918, and later analysis has not corrected Fisher's error.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2012
  • Deaf and disabled people were, and in some places remain, victims of eugenicist or bigoted policies that have in the past included experimentation and compulsory sterilization.
    Sara Novic, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
  • In 2021, the American Psychological Association issued a public apology and resolution noting psychology’s roots in eugenicist and racist ideas and the negative impact that the field has had on communities of color.
    Annie Ma, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2023
  • These included early 20th-century eugenicists, pioneers in gathering the histories of family traits.
    Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Aug. 2017

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