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China has been a tough market for carmakers, who have battled weakening demand as well as fierce price competition that Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Kaellenius last month described as "Darwinistic".

From Reuters • Oct. 13, 2023

“But the global pandemic has exposed them in such a raw manner that it’s almost Darwinistic — only the strong survive,” said De León, who is running for mayor.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2022

Bichutsky thinks that, in a saturated social-media landscape, only the best influencers rise to the top, and his idiom is distressingly Darwinistic.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 7, 2018

The challenge requires adaptation, which plays to our Darwinistic notions of how businesses evolve, strive to survive, and come out stronger.

From Forbes • Sep. 23, 2013

Whilst Darwinistic naturalism surely injures the moral principles, the Darwinistic theories are friendly to them, if they, as mere scientific theories, restrain themselves within the limits of natural science.

From The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Zimmermann, G. A.