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 | [e-mail], al, 10 Sep. 2023
• In just the past two years, scientific research has saved millions of lives.
  — Saloni Dattani, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
• In the scientific terms there are two types of these tiny bits of organic matter.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023
• Why not get scientific about the proofing process for your Parker House rolls?
  — Editors Of Bon Appétit, Bon Appétit, 1 Nov. 2024
• 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 botanical name, also called the scientific name, is in Latin.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Flores, Indonesia is the home of the scientific study of small humans.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
• More than four scientific studies have pinned a large part of the decline on human climate change.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 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
• But, based on the scientific research published in a study from 2020, there is one thing that humans can do to really build rapport with a cat, and that is slow blink.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 27 Dec. 2022
• The scientific community has been studying the effects of spaceflight on the human body since the 1970s.
  — Fernanda González, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2024
• The agency had already been weakened by attacks on its scientific side during the first Trump term.
  — Zeynep Tufekci, The Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2024
• While the origin and need for scientific integrity have roots in good government, it can be abused.
  — Curtis Schube, Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2024
• Those have been based on scientific studies showing women can safely use the drug at home.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 Feb. 2023
• 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 microbiome is a new frontier of scientific research, including the field of skin care.
  — Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 2 Feb. 2023
• But fellow scientists quickly raised doubts about the study's size, scientific flaws and ethics.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
• 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
• What bothered Jones wasn’t that scientists make mistakes but that the mistake kept getting cited in yet more scientific papers and media reports.
  — F.d. Flam, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025