How to Use Darwinian in a Sentence

Darwinian

adjective

• Of course, as with any emerging pursuit, Darwinian selection will have its say on the ultimate survivors.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2024-03-07
• In a Darwinian process, psychotherapy as a stipulated process might stridently ebb and flow as the times change.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2023-12-11
• At the heart of this Darwinian joke, Williams experiences deep ambivalence.
  — Armond White, National Review, 2025-01-10
• Murdoch believed a Darwinian struggle would produce the most capable heir.
  — Chloe Walker, Longreads, 2023-05-25
• That includes a case of Darwinian survival not over millions of years but one generation, Berry noted.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 2025-02-25
• Minerals evolve toward greater complexity (though not in the Darwinian sense).
  — Philip Ball, Wired News, 2025-06-08
• Comebacks are not easy in the Darwinian art world, but Juliano-Villani has become an expert in rehab.
  — Jay Bulger, Vulture, 2024-11-20
• This can be mentally taxing — an artist's position is never safe — and cruelly Darwinian.
  — Elias Leight, Billboard, 2024-08-07
• For the tennis player, the golfer, the swimmer, the sprinter and the rest of the sports that people play but don’t necessarily watch, landing a spot will be Darwinian.
  — Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2025-04-06
• If only through a Darwinian process, the Russian army has at last found some competent planners and battlefield commanders.
  — Barry R. Posen, Foreign Affairs, 2023-01-04
• Parking is wildly expensive, traffic is apocalyptic and even making it to the site is like a mass Darwinian experiment.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 2023-09-09
• About the impact of the unearthing of the dinosaurs and other fossils, of Darwinian evolution, of geology’s discovery of deep time.
  — William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic, 2024-04-02
• Her New York was glamorous and exciting but essentially Darwinian.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 2023-06-19
• The student of Darwinian theory must also know something about comparative anatomy (whales have bone structures more similar to those of humans than to those of fish).
  — Adam B. Cohen, Scientific American, 2018-07-01
• An anthropologist and primatologist, Hrdy had long taken the entrenched Darwinian view that men belonged in the boardroom or the brothel more than in the nursery.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2024-03-30
• Hence, a turn toward self-reliance, whether in the form of back-yard gardening or ruthless self-optimization that anticipates Darwinian competition amid crisis.
  — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 2025-04-16
• This introduced Darwinian natural selection to his idea of the cosmos: Whether or not a particular kind of universe proliferates depends on its fitness.
  — Adam Frank, Discover Magazine, 2023-07-12
• There’s some secret sauce that turns an odd collection of prebiotic compounds and molecules into self-reproducing structures that undergo Darwinian evolution.
  — ArsTechnica, 2025-03-26
• Darwin Still Wins These same Darwinian evolutionary principles would likely also hold up on exoplanets, says Bryson.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• Our economic systems are not built on haves and have-nots, a Darwinian model of survival of the fittest that actually encourages class divisions and strife by rewarding winners who often seem to succeed by taking advantage of the less fortunate.
  — Marja Heinonen, CNN, 2023-03-29
• We’re pulled, in Headland’s telling, by a weird mix of mythological pressure, Darwinian logic, residual altruism, childhood regression and (most importantly) raw personal need.
  — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 2024-12-13
• The theory diverged from the dominant, century-long view that evolution adhered to a slow, steady pace of Darwinian gradualism, in which species incrementally and almost imperceptibly developed into new ones.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
• Her rabbits, kittens, mice and squirrels are anthropomorphized, but there is a ruthless, survival-of-the-fittest ethos always in the background, creating a surreal fusion of quaint, cozy English domesticity and stern, Darwinian rigor.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 2024-04-08
• Elite sport is unapologetically cutthroat, inherently Darwinian.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 2024-01-12