ethicist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ethicist
Example Sentences
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Dr John Appleby, a medical ethicist at Lancaster University, said the implications of using sperm so widely was a "vast" ethical minefield.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
Dr. Dugdale is a physician and ethicist at Columbia University and the author of “The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
She contacted colleague Cansu Canca, an ethicist who is director of Responsible AI Practice at Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential AI.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025
As an ethicist, her role was to ask questions, including uncomfortable ones: “Is this a good thing?”
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 2025
With the purest intention he is much less of an ethicist than Kant.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
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