The Volokh Conspiracy

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David Kopel Makes the Oxford English Dictionary Examples

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From the usage examples for the word Hitlerist; the quote is from David's post Data on Mass Murder by Government in the 20th Century:

2022
Although the party had explicitly Stalinist and Hitlerist roots, the deaths are not assigned to either ideology.
Newstex Blogs: Volokh Conspiracy (Nexis) 9 November

Big time! Reason also makes it with an example of "puppycide" (in an article by Radley Balko):

2006
When the speaker mentions that the government also slaughtered two dogs during the siege, eyes light up, the indifferent get angry, and skeptics come around. Puppycide, apparently, goes too far.
Reason Magazine

Just to be clear, these weren't the first examples; puppycide, for instance, goes back to 1865.

Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA School of Law. Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any institution.