ethicist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ethicist
Example Sentences
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In an essay this week, Paolo Benanti, a Catholic priest and technology ethicist, weighs in on the topic.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 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
As an ethicist, her role was to ask questions, including uncomfortable ones: “Is this a good thing?”
From Salon • Jan. 16, 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
And he is, much more certainly, the only thoroughly emancipated, the only thoroughly modern and scientific ethicist that ever lived.
From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph
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