How to Use scientist in a Sentence

scientist

noun
  • The scientists track the mice through the rest of their life spans, which can be more than 2 years.
    Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 11 Sep. 2024
  • There’s also more to the young scientist than meets the eye.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Had the deer still been alive, the scientists would have intervened.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • And the scientist also has said the birds are outsmarting us.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
  • All these years later, the man — now a scientist — was writing to thank her.
    Naomi Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Then one day, hopefully, the doctors or the scientists can come up with a cure.
    Breanna Bell, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • And for the first time, scientists noted, salty king tides were now within a few inches of the base of the cacti.
    Alex Harris, Orlando Sentinel, 12 July 2024
  • But overall, the new study’s conclusions rang true to the Audubon scientists.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The seaweed has formed annual blooms in the Atlantic Ocean for years and scientists have tracked it since 2011.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 9 July 2023
  • But not all scientists are convinced by the new research.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 31 May 2023
  • The biggest pterosaur scientists know of so far is Quetzalcoatlus northropi, which was found in Texas.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 June 2023
  • For the past few years, scientists have been sounding the alarm about a steep decline in Antarctica’s sea ice.
    Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Well, the chief scientist position exists to make sure that what NWF does is based in the best science.
    Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The scientists will also be able to compare samples of Bennu to Ryugu.
    WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The data scientist rang the bell, nailing the margin of victory for the pair of races combined within two tenths of a point.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
  • And now scientists have confirmed a new one: Diverse firefly species lit up the night during the late Mesozoic.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The sample size in the study was small, a limitation the scientists acknowledge in the paper.
    Julia Daye, Sacramento Bee, 10 May 2024
  • The park scientists plan to monitor squirrels and woodpeckers to see how each species fares over the coming years, said Roland.
    Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Along the way, scientists will also have to prove that the technology is safe, durable, and cost-effective.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The spiders that missed the eclipse because of the scientists' light did not exhibit this behavior.
    Geraldine Castro, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Many scientists today see the drug as a new path forward in what’s been a frustrating dead end for mental health.
    ELLE, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Bourdain, who plays a bit role as a scientist in the movie, chronicled his work on the film in an episode of his No Reservations travel show.
    Keith Langston and Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 May 2023
  • Ten years later, in 2022, scientists went a step further.
    Dan Lambe, Treehugger, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Like all good scientists, Losos admits that are many questions that will keep cat research active for years to come.
    Jerry A. Coyne, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • Thankfully, these scientists are doing the hard work for us.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 11 May 2024
  • The mercury has likely been sequestered in the permafrost for millennia, the scientists said.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Lichtman: And for a long time, scientists had a simple explanation for how these birds landed all over the world.
    Flora Lichtman, Scientific American, 2 June 2023
  • Neither the bomb nor the computer can be credited to, or blamed on, any single scientist.
    Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2023
  • What does this weather scientist do to protect himself at home?
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The ashes belonged to the wife of the first owner, a scientist at Bell Labs, and Montoya considered the idea of returning the remains to the family, who might live far away.
    Curbed, 29 Dec. 2023

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