Fittest has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest— Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. "Fitness," then, is only another name for "survival." Darwinism: That survivors survive. | |
| 2. | This is an example of the survival of the fittest, as it is called. | |
| 3. | Tatoeba: Let the fittest sentence survive! | |
| 4. | Let it be survival of the fittest, but it's fastened and carefully directed. | |
| 5. | It's survival of the fittest. | |
| 6. | Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. |