How to Use philosopher in a Sentence

philosopher

noun
  • Benet’s Luke Bafia plays baseball the way a philosopher ponders the state of the world.
    Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2022
  • As a wise philosopher named Huey Lewis once opined, that’s the power of love!
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Asha, the daughter of a philosopher, reflects the hope and ideals of a people.
    Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2023
  • This year marks the 300th anniversary of the great philosopher’s birth.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes, 7 May 2022
  • Thomas Hobbes was one of the most clear-eyed and therefore one of the bleakest of social philosophers.
    John Banville, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Or, in the words of the ancient philosophers, whatever floats your boat.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
  • The original coiner of the term was French philosopher Edgar Morin, who introduced the term in the 1990s.
    Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes went about with a lantern in search of an honest man.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The Supreme Court’s job is to say what the law is, not to be a body of philosopher kings to impose progressive outcomes.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 May 2022
  • And which actor could measure up to her as the high-minded philosopher Palmer Joss?
    Vulture, 29 June 2022
  • But O’Keeffe, in the end, wasn’t carrying out a philosopher’s program.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • The philosophers invited the tech billionaires to dance.
    Leif Wenar, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The French philosopher has been traveling to and reporting on Ukraine for years.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The philosopher is known to have sailed across the Gulf of Naples on a rescue mission to help those fleeing the devastation.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The Fairy Godmother is replaced by Alidoro, a philosopher and tutor to the Prince.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The Oxford philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards notes that this argument, like the one above, proves too much.
    Dylan Matthews, Vox, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The history of mankind, as the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel believed, is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
    Frida Ghitis, CNN, 3 May 2022
  • Weil held an exacting view of the philosopher’s mandate.
    Robert Zaretsky, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2022
  • And then there’s the idea, fueled by philosophers and pop culture, that AI bots could one day threaten human life.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • He's referred to as a modern-day philosopher and was actually just a guest on the third season of my show.
    Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Machelet was a chemist and philosopher, and is best known for his work on the theory of the conservation of energy. . . .
    New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Across eight episodes stuffed full of dull monologues in a country 3,000 miles away from the action of the war, the philosopher’s quest feels both self-serving and arrogant.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Some physicists and philosophers have taken the statement at face value.
    Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • So there’s the character, a philosopher with high ideals, and then there’s the plot—a woman’s life quickly unravels.
    Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • From there, Harrison studied writings by and about King, and by the philosophers King admired.
    Chris Vognar, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The philosopher Lucretius is the hero of the story, and Lightman recounts how the Roman’s works played a key role in the development of his own thinking.
    Denis Alexander, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Some philosophers argue against that view, but Michael Plant and coauthors defend it in this new paper.
    Sigal Samuel, Vox, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Walzer does just what the political philosopher ought to do.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Larry Hass bills himself as the philosopher magician and themes his show around ideas and beliefs.
    Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2023
  • Hank is great at thinking about it all, both from a lawyer’s perspective and almost from a philosopher’s perspective.
    The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2024

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