evolution
noun
any process of formation or growth; development.
evolutional
-
a word derived from
evolution.
Example Sentences
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“Offering more flavors of golf is tapping into evolutional demands,” Joe Beditz, the longtime president and chief executive of the National Golf Foundation, said.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2021
"He wants to be good, but is he being good because he is good, or is he doing it for other people? Is there a reason to be good aside from the primal evolutional instinct?"
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2015
Let once a wrong be achieved by artificial means, and instantly those who profit by it represent it as the inevitable decree of evolutional forces.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 by Various
If such evolutional spurts are to be deemed degenerative, the fate of the four-leaved clover is sealed.
From Why Worry? by George Lincoln Walton
On the other hand, another great English thinker and naturalist of rare breadth and catholicity, and despite the fact that he rejected Lamarck’s peculiar evolutional views, associated him with the most eminent biologists.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
