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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

Even through his naïveté, to bring a book to what’s essentially a Darwinistic knife fight, maybe in the end love and altruism is really what will win out.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2020

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

Germany, Häckel's influence in the spread of Darwinism,  262. ——, photograph-album received from,  283. ——, reception of Darwinistic views in,  247. —— and France, contrast of progress of theory in,  261.

From Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Darwin, Charles