How to Use scientific in a Sentence

scientific

adjective
  • Note: These polls are not and do not claim to be scientific.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 2 June 2024
  • But there doesn’t seem to be a lot of scientific evidence to back that up just yet.
    Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The full results of the Texas study have not been made public or published in a scientific journal.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 10 Sep. 2023
  • In the scientific terms there are two types of these tiny bits of organic matter.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The team plans to publish the work in a scientific journal, but the research hasn’t yet undergone peer review.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
  • There is a whiff of the scientific, or scientistic, about it.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The mission promised to break new scientific pathways and make careers.
    David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
  • That lasted for about 20 years until the discovery of an error in how the scientific name was applied, and the study was thrown out.
    Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 11 July 2024
  • And whether the scientific community can be ready in less than a decade is an open question.
    Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
  • But there is not a clear scientific consensus on this point.
    USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
  • As the editor of a scientific journal, I was mortified to read the claims laid out in Lewis-Kraus’s article.
    Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • While the origin and need for scientific integrity have roots in good government, it can be abused.
    Curtis Schube, Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2024
  • The scientific community agrees that the tremors and uplift are signs that the volcano is awakening.
    Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2023
  • In scientific research, the paper usually comes out about a year after the research was done.
    Terry Gross, NPR, 10 Apr. 2024
  • How the wolves’ lives unfold is likely to be the subject of political sparring and scientific research for years to come.
    Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The camp that drilled a borehole for scientific research in 2018 required thousands of gallons of diesel fuel.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 June 2024
  • Some scientific reports have linked the increase in blooms at least indirectly to a world made warmer by climate change.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024
  • Osborn is part of a group of scientists who are mounting a kind of scientific salvage mission.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
  • There have long been concerns about the impact of such stringent isolation measures on mental health, and the Aberdeen study is one of the first to shed scientific light on the consequences.
    Bloomberg, Fortune Well, 31 May 2023
  • The project isn’t meant to demonstrate scientific rigor; instead, it’s meant to show that art can affect viewers in meaningful ways.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Featuring robust metal hulls, the subs can be used for either scientific work or joy rides.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2023
  • From a scientific standpoint, these claims of disproof are absurd.
    Jeremy P. Shapiro, The Conversation, 2 May 2023
  • Hill says the scientific goal of the banding station is to build a long-term database to monitor the health of bird populations flying through Bear Divide.
    Kai McNamee, NPR, 13 May 2024
  • Many cooks and chefs will say that baking is not their forté because of its rigid rules, specific formulas, and overall scientific process.
    L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2024
  • But there’s vigorous debate in the scientific community over just how quickly the AMOC might decline, and how best to even figure that out.
    WIRED, 26 July 2023
  • Determining the scientific story of those space rocks—where did Bennu come from?
    Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Some of its descriptors are scientific—zero, the vacuum, the void.
    Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Former employees of Lykos, the company seeking the FDA approval, said the hype around the drug sometimes interfered with the scientific process in its drug trials.
    Brittany Trang, STAT, 9 Aug. 2024
  • There’s also loads of scientific evidence that gas stove emissions are terrible for our health.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Grande Cosmetics is known for its scientific approach to all things related to lashes and brows, and this formula is no different.
    Jessica Fields, Essence, 17 Sep. 2024

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