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
• At the time, deaf people across the country had been targeted by eugenicists who wanted to establish sterilization laws to prevent them from having children.
  — Claire Healy, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Hill devotes chapters to ensuring readers understand the wider context of facial recognition technology, exploring, for example, its sordid eugenicist origins.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024