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ethicist

American  
[eth-uh-sist] / ˈɛθ ə sɪst /
Also ethician

noun

  1. a person who specializes in or writes on ethics or who is devoted to ethical principles.


Etymology

Origin of ethicist

First recorded in 1890–95; ethic + -ist


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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

AI ethicist and author Olivia Gambelin told the BBC OpenAI limiting further use of Dr King's image was "a good step forward".

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 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

“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

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 Joseph Ratner

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