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How to use eugenics in a sentence

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Eugenics means a social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means. Example: “In keeping with the goals of the new eugenics movement, McCulloch was claiming to offer scientific evidence of the incorrigibility of poor rural whites.”

Examples of eugenics by meaning

nounA social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective...

  • In keeping with the goals of the new eugenics movement, McCulloch was claiming to offer scientific evidence of the incorrigibility of poor rural whites.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 77

More sentences with eugenics

  • They don't speak of eugenics but rather of maintaining "human biodiversity".2016 August 25, Giles Fraser, “The alt right is old racism for the tech-savvy generation”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian…. From the entry racism
  • Eugenics was the crucial vehicle for nationalizing and deregionalizing the stigmatypes of southern poor white trash.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 95. From the entry deregionalize
  • They wow the crowd with heavy machinery and endangered-species eugenics.1994 January 10, Penn Jillette, “Las Vegas: Tonight! Miracles, Live!”, in Time. From the entry march to the beat of a different drum
  • Negative and positive eugenics may be distinguished.1977, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Evolution. From the entry euphenics
  • Ahuman antinatalism is not efilism (the end-all-carbon-based-life fetishization of Buddhism) and it is not genocide, eugenics, or any other thoroughly human hierarchical form of violence.2020, Rick Dolphijn, “The Non-Human, Systems, and New Materialism”, in Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Jacob Wamberg, editors, The Bloomsbury…. From the entry efilism
  • Arguably, the latter was enabled to continue in a revitalised constructivised form rinsed clean of (apparent) responsibility for the excesses of eugenics.2011, C. Blencowe, Biopolitical Experience: Foucault, Power and Positive Critique. From the entry constructivise
  • Conceptually, this cognitive slide from social to biological was facilitated by the rhetoric of eugenics, which acknowledged few distinctions between the two.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 170. From the entry slide
  • This is the realm of eugenics.1977, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Evolution. From the entry euphenics
  • Despite the striking similarities between eugenics and neo-eugenics, it is important to mark a primary difference: that eugenics was, in some cases, mobilized as a genocidal movement.2021, David-Jack Fletcher, Age as Disease: Anti-Aging Technologies, Sites and Practices, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry neo-eugenics

Meaning of eugenics

  1. noun A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.

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Questions about eugenics in a sentence

How do you use eugenics in a sentence?
Eugenics is used as a noun. For example: “In keeping with the goals of the new eugenics movement, McCulloch was claiming to offer scientific evidence of the incorrigibility of poor rural whites.”
What is a short sentence with eugenics?
“This is the realm of eugenics.”
What does eugenics mean?
Eugenics means a social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.

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