ethicist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ethicist
Example Sentences
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As a cognitive neuroscientist and artificial-intelligence ethicist, I’ll say plainly: Autism isn’t a behavioral disorder to be corrected.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
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
“Then, I just flopped back down on my back and experienced this overwhelming feeling of absolute bliss,” Leier, an ethicist at the University of Alberta in Canada, told Salon in a phone interview.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025
Our three leads have three different priorities: Arledge is the humanist; Bader, the ethicist; Mason, the visualist who wants the right images.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024
With the purest intention he is much less of an ethicist than Kant.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
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