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- noun An advocate of or a specialist in eugenics.
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- noun A believer in, advocate of, or specialist regarding the principles of eugenics.
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Examples
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Ingle.1 As a eugenicist, Ingle subsequently also caused a lot of stress, notably by advocating sterilization of African Americans.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Ingle.1 As a eugenicist, Ingle subsequently also caused a lot of stress, notably by advocating sterilization of African Americans.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Paul Popenoe, the most influential American eugenicist, was a leader in the progressive movement for “social hygiene.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Again, as a man of his time who was au fait with the available technology, and as the younger brother of eugenicist Julian, Huxley knew plenty about sterilization but did not anticipate The Pill.
Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80 Jonathan D. Moreno 2012
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Again, as a man of his time who was au fait with the available technology, and as the younger brother of eugenicist Julian, Huxley knew plenty about sterilization but did not anticipate The Pill.
Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80 Jonathan D. Moreno 2012
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Dust and Chill have largely-white casts with a few characters of Southeast Asian/American descent, for various reasons involving my theories about who the crazy-ass Christian apocalyptic eugenicist cultists would be taking into space.
what these people need is a honky gregvaneekhout 2009
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Could Spring Heeled Jack have some connection with the Libertine movement founded by Henry de la Poer Beresford, a.k.a. the Mad Marquess, or with the Technologists, a scientific league formed by the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the eugenicist Francis Galton, the medical genius Florence Nightingale and the great scientist Charles Darwin?
"The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack," steampunk by Mark Hodder Michael Dirda 2010
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Again, as a man of his time who was au fait with the available technology, and as the younger brother of eugenicist Julian, Huxley knew plenty about sterilization but did not anticipate The Pill.
Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80 Jonathan D. Moreno 2012
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Again, as a man of his time who was au fait with the available technology, and as the younger brother of eugenicist Julian, Huxley knew plenty about sterilization but did not anticipate The Pill.
Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80 Jonathan D. Moreno 2012
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Again, as a man of his time who was au fait with the available technology, and as the younger brother of eugenicist Julian, Huxley knew plenty about sterilization but did not anticipate The Pill.
Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80 Jonathan D. Moreno 2012
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