Example Sentences

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I’m struck by your reference there to how this kind of post-Reconstruction, gilded, social Darwinist era kind of paved the road for fascism to come later.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

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

A fundamentalist orator opposes a liberal lawyer defending a Darwinist teacher in the 1920s South.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2021

Skovorodnikoff was a materialist, a Darwinist, and considered every manifestation of abstract morality, or, worse still, piety, not only as contemptible and absurd but as an affront to his person.

From The Awakening The Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf