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
  • Right at the start, in the winter of 1998, theorists got to work on shrinking that gap.
    — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
  • In 1964, British theorist John Bell proposed a test of that idea.
    — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 4 Oct. 2022
  • But do the credulity theorists have the right account of what’s going on?
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Third, Stan Evans was a first-rank thinker and theorist who read deeply in the conservative canon.
    — Lee Edwards, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Number theorists from all over the world pounced on Zhang’s result and tried to improve it.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
  • In fact, number theorists use these strange values for most of their work.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • An example from a string theorist gives a view of what a fourth dimension could be.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • This is not just the position of French theorists and post-truth relativists.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • For number theorists, 2012 was like a roller-coaster ride.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 28 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This was all in preparation for an episode about infinity with the set theorist Justin Moore.
    — Polly Stryker, Quanta Magazine, 9 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Alex Jones, the extreme far-right talk-show host and conspiracy theorist, joined the social network.
    — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Alexander marched to the Capitol from the rally with Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist and Infowars host.
    — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Should inflation rage out of control, the MMT theorists say, Congress will raise taxes.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The theorist Wendy Brown once observed that at the end of the twentieth century liberals and Marxists alike had begun to lose faith in the future.
    — Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • And after a billion-plus dollars in judgements, there's still no end in sight for the conspiracy theorist.
    — Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
  • In the 1960s, the British social theorist Richard Titmuss began to argue that blood should never be a commodity.
    — Adam Gaffney, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
  • With these two drawings, Ruskin, an important artist and theorist, created quick and beautiful records of the movement of light and shadow over time in a cave.
    — NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s wisest political observers—a great political theorist and writer as well as a fierce critic, and occasional target, of Modi and his policies.
    — Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2024
  • In contrast, quantum information theorists don’t need to know what sort of physical force might be causing the mysterious behavior of entangled quantum particles.
    — William Mark Stuckey, The Conversation, 30 July 2024

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