Example Sentences

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This Darwinist touch runs counter to the core work of activism.

From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2021

Some even accuse him, history’s most outspoken opponent of social Darwinism, of being — you guessed it — a social Darwinist.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2021

Later, inside her home, she meets her neighbor and fellow Darwinist, Thatcher Greenwood, surrounded by tarantulas in glass jars as a Venus flytrap “eats” her finger.

From Washington Times • Oct. 15, 2018

Huxley was born in Godalming, England, to a well-known family — his grandfather, Thomas Henry Huxley, was a biologist and Darwinist who coined the word "agnostic."

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2016

He was a Darwinist before the letter; a predestined follower of the tide; but he was hardly trained to follow Darwin's evidences.

From The Education of Henry Adams by Adams, Henry