eugenicist
Americannoun
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a specialist in measures intended to produce a perceived improvement in the human species or a human population.
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an advocate of measures intended to produce a perceived improvement in the human species or a human population.
Etymology
Origin of eugenicist
Example Sentences
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She wrote that environment and education might just overcome almost any disadvantage, which is not really in line with eugenicist thinking.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023
The centuries-long cultural campaign in favor of procreation is one side of a historically eugenicist coin, and the other is even darker.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023
Sotomayor tells the stories of almost all of them, contrasting Chicano alumni like himself with the eugenicist roots of Stanford’s founders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
Ford noted that the man recognized as the father of the gifted education movement was a prominent eugenicist.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
In 1924, Hermann Werner Siemens, the German eugenicist and Nazi sympathizer, proposed a twin study that advanced Galton’s proposal by meticulously separating identical twins from fraternal twins.*
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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