How to Use ethicist in a Sentence

ethicist

noun
  • The ethicists believe certain safeguards can and should be implemented as soon as possible to prevent such outcomes.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 May 2024
  • At the same time, Trump has been a boon to ethicists, moral philosophers and the rest of us who tend to wake up in the night and think about big scary things.
    Robert Reich, Alaska Dispatch News, 8 Aug. 2017
  • As an ethicist, Klein returns to an objective view of what the league is, and is not.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • My job as an ethicist is to help ensure that such a split doesn't happen, and to fight to close the current gap in things like health care.
    Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2011
  • Gabrielle Blair is not a legal scholar or an ethicist or pundit.
    Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
  • Gabriel, the Google spokesperson, said Lemoine is a software engineer, not an ethicist.
    Nitasha Tiku, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2022
  • The news about Streisand's clones prompted a flood of outrage from activists and ethicists who strongly oppose the practice.
    Roxanne Roberts, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2019
  • But some ethicists said Russia’s approach should be commended — and even copied — to help the living.
    Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Appointing ethicists to the Fed Board wouldn’t solve the difficulty of choosing ends.
    Amar Bhidé, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
  • The announcement touched off a firestorm of criticism from scientists and ethicists in attendance at the summit and around the world.
    Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The message appears to have resonated with some wary lawmakers - to the dismay of some AI experts and ethicists.
    Cat Zakrzewski, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Many ethicists fear such multigene analyses could one day be used to screen embryos for desirable traits as well, such as tall stature or high IQ.
    Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Ito calls himself an ethicist as well as a tech entrepreneur.
    Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
  • That's two lawyers, two board members, the head of performance and the organization's ethicist.
    Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
  • A few weeks into year two of the lockdown era, America is grappling with what an ethicist might call the Delivery Dilemma.
    Matthew Heimer, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Brain research is advancing so quickly that ethicists are scrambling to keep up.
    NBC News, 16 May 2018
  • Committee members are mindful of the challenges faced by rural Alaska, said Carr, the ethicist.
    Author: Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Hurlbut, a Stanford ethicist who has known He for a few years, also registered his worries.
    Ernie Mastroianni, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Quartz spoke with eight ethicists, all of whom agreed that in such dire situations, those who have the best chance of surviving get priority.
    Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Princeton ethicist Peter Singer has kept his job even after arguing that parents of disabled babies should have the right to kill their kids.
    Heather Lanier, Longreads, 4 Mar. 2021
  • David Miller is an on-call ethicist the bank consults on weighty questions of right and wrong, supplementing its armies of lawyers and compliance officers.
    Christina Rexrode, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2017
  • Daniel Sokol, a London barrister and medical ethicist, said the form would be invalid under English and Welsh law.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 14 July 2022
  • Her fate would make an excellent conundrum for an ethicist.
    Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 May 2018
  • With permission from the recipients, CNN sent the 39 pieces of content to ethicists, lawyers and social media experts.
    Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The team consists of a clinician, an ethicist a person with legal expertise.
    Shari Rudavsky, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The news comes a little over a month after another prominent AI ethicist, Timnit Gebru, said she was fired by the company.
    Jon Porter, The Verge, 20 Jan. 2021
  • But he's done so with limited concern for due process -- in both the justice system and the method of execution itself -- which courts have shaped and ethicists have debated in the US for decades.
    Ryan Struyk, CNN, 11 Mar. 2018
  • While pigeon fanciers maintain that the birds receive great care during training, animal rights groups and ethicists have long criticized the sport.
    Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Gillers, the legal ethicist, said Jackson Lewis’s previous work for the client raises questions about the firm’s independence.
    Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Aesthetes, ethicists, novelists—all may be easily critiqued and found wanting on this basis.
    Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 5 May 2024

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