How to Use theorist in a Sentence
theorist
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Right at the start, in the winter of 1998, theorists got to work on shrinking that gap.
—Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
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Right at the start, in the winter of 1998, theorists got to work on shrinking that gap.
—Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
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In 1964, British theorist John Bell proposed a test of that idea.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 4 Oct. 2022
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But do the credulity theorists have the right account of what’s going on?
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
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Third, Stan Evans was a first-rank thinker and theorist who read deeply in the conservative canon.
—Lee Edwards, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
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Number theorists from all over the world pounced on Zhang’s result and tried to improve it.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
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In fact, number theorists use these strange values for most of their work.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024
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To be sure, there are enough of these sorts of brutish battles going on in nature to make war-of-all-against-all theorist Thomas Hobbes smirk.
—Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2022
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Gilberto Perez, who died in 2015, at the age of seventy-one, was one of the great scholars and theorists of the cinema.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2020
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Even so, three-body theorists see a number of ways that the unthinkable might be avoided.
—William J. Broad, New York Times, 26 June 2023
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An example from a string theorist gives a view of what a fourth dimension could be.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2023
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There’s a path between any two dots — what graph theorists call vertices — and no path is longer than two line segments, or edges.
—Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2023
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This is not just the position of French theorists and post-truth relativists.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
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For number theorists, 2012 was like a roller-coaster ride.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 28 July 2023
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The core of the collection is a gift from Olsen’s mentor of many years, brand expert and cultural theorist Steven Mark Klein, who died last year.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2022
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The figures of the mermaid, the nymph, and the water queen all connote a kind of eroticized, passive to-be-looked-at-ness, to borrow the film theorist Laura Mulvey’s term.
—Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 21 June 2024
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Here’s my interpretation of Saito, the theorist, in practice: Live in a small apartment rather than a big, drafty house.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
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He was hailed in the leftist press as the leading theorist of the new millennium, the first person to describe the emergence of a new form of society.
—Clay Risen, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
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This was all in preparation for an episode about infinity with the set theorist Justin Moore.
—Polly Stryker, Quanta Magazine, 9 Feb. 2023
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China has in recent years witnessed a surge of interest in the work of the German legal theorist Carl Schmitt.
—Chang Che, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2020
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That said, one possible avenue for moving up the food chain is the case of Owen Shroyer, the right-hand man of the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
—New York Times, 5 Jan. 2022
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One need not be a conspiracy theorist to know that there’s more to uncover here.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 Jan. 2020
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For example, look at the false claims being made by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones that 2019-nCoV was made in a lab.
—Popular Science, 11 Feb. 2020
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Ten of the families have sued the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who insists the shooting was staged.
—Bryan Anselm/redux For Cnn, CNN, 14 Dec. 2021
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The film deals with this a lot, the idea that these academics, these theorists could come together and build something with their own hands of this magnitude, of this importance.
—WIRED, 20 June 2023
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Alex Jones, the extreme far-right talk-show host and conspiracy theorist, joined the social network.
—Talal Ansari, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
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Halbig was a guest on the radio show of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
—USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2020
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Alexander marched to the Capitol from the rally with Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist and Infowars host.
—Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2022
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The scholar track is geared toward writers, academics, and theorists in the subjects of new media and digital art and technology and culture.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 3 Dec. 2024
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Despite these advances, interest in the surface code remained confined to a small community of theorists — people who weren’t working with qubits in the lab.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
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