How to Use eugenics in a Sentence

eugenics

noun

• And Washington did have a hard-line eugenics law on the books, until the Supreme Court overturned it in 1942.
  — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2021
• The judges did not all agree on the reasoning, but laced within the 111 pages were references to eugenics, and Thomas' opinion.
  — Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 22 Oct. 2021
• The first two rules have led some to imply that the stones endorse eugenics or genocide, per the Independent’s Graig Graziosi.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2022
• Catte’s bracing and detailed recreation of the world of Virginia eugenics conveys the full reach of its legacy.
  — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2021
• How did the theory of eugenics play a role in the new immigration system?
  — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2020
• Still, the link between Sanger and eugenics has led to assertions about Planned Parenthood that are false and need to be challenged outright.
  — Dani McClain, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Nov. 2020
• Theodore Roosevelt was a wealthy imperialist who sang the glories of war and of eugenics.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• Like many leading minds of his generation, Knopf took an approach to science that was informed by the racist tenets of eugenics.
  — Daniela Blei, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2020
• But in recent years, public support for eugenics has made a comeback.
  — Adam Cohen, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
• There is reason to believe the eugenics movement will continue to grow.
  — Adam Cohen, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
• Lurking in the background of every discussion on embryo selection and ethics is the specter of eugenics.
  — Laura Hercher, Scientific American, 12 July 2021
• If anything, there was exploration of the negative side, like the eugenics movement.
  — Angela Chen, The Verge, 20 July 2018
• But the ability to stop caring—the privilege of never caring in the first place—has clear eugenics undertones.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 18 Dec. 2021
• Of the 45 people approved for reparations so far, just three were sterilized during the eugenics era.
  — Adam Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
• The payments would make California at least the third state after Virginia and North Carolina to pay victims of the eugenics movement.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
• Government officials did it in the name of eugenics — of trying to curtail the number of working-class people and people of color.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
• The intellectual roots of eugenics sought to improve the human species through breeding.
  — Jen Schwartz, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
• The pseudoscience of eugenics, asserting race as a biological fact as well as the inherent supremacy of the white race, had also taken hold in the GOP.
  — Sara Kamali, Fortune, 28 May 2021
• And [eugenics was] completely mainstream and considered very cutting edge, and just very current.
  — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2020
• Other judges were blunter, comparing these abortions to eugenics.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2021
• Sanger’s belief in eugenics has long marred her legacy — a legacy that Planned Parenthood itself has acknowledged and denounced.
  — Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2021
• The controversy around Fisher involves his legacy as a founder and advocate for eugenics.
  — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Scientific American, 12 June 2020
• In Buck, the Court had upheld a Virginia eugenics law that authorized physicians to sterilize young women without consent.
  — Adam J. MacLeod, National Review, 26 Aug. 2021
• In their book, Nelkin and Lindee looked back at the eugenics movement earlier in the century and saw thematic links between the 1990s obsession with genetics and those old notions of heredity.
  — Libby Copeland, Time, 2 Mar. 2020
• Wagner-Jauregg won a Nobel Prize for this discovery, but his work would be overshadowed by his endorsement of eugenics and eventual support for the Nazis.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2021
• The sudden effort to disentangle Planned Parenthood from its founder’s role in the racially motivated eugenics movement of the 20th century is too little, too late, even by the Left’s own standards.
  — Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 19 Apr. 2021
• Von KleinSmid held a leadership role in the California eugenics movement.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• There were all kinds of horrible medical experiments done on people of color [like] the harmful eugenics movement.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
• The eugenics movement sought to prevent some people with mental illness or physical disabilities from being able to have children.
  — Adam Beam, ajc, 4 Jan. 2023
• In June 2020, the University of Southern California stripped a campus building of the name of a former president who was a prominent advocate for eugenics.
  — Zachary Schermele, NBC News, 29 June 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024