Examples of analyst in a Sentence
Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
The five employees killed were Joshua Barrick, 40, a senior vice president; Deana Eckert, 57, an executive administrative officer; Thomas Elliott, 63, also a senior vice president; Juliana Farmer, 45, a loan analyst; and Jim Tutt Jr., 64, a commercial real estate market executive.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 22 Nov. 2023
On Monday, as political analysts (and many Argentineans) anxiously sought to digest the election of the far-right firebrand Javier Milei as the next President of South America’s second-largest economy, investors cheered.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
The analyst notes the company’s commitment to achieve ‘net zero’ greenhouse gas emissions by 2042.
—WSJ, 21 Nov. 2023
Patrick De Haan, an analyst for the price-tracking service, said inflation has cooled but some things like food are still getting more expensive.
—David Koenig, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023
Ukrainian forces have mostly thwarted Russia’s attacks, using a combination of drones and cluster munitions to inflict some of the heaviest Russian losses of the war, according to soldiers and military analysts.
—Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
The setbacks have stirred doubts among industry analysts, as well as some Kemmerer residents who stop Thek at the town’s lone grocery to ask whether Gates and the feds can be trusted to deliver.
—Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
Walmart’s per-share earnings missed the average estimate of $1.52 from 29 analysts on Yahoo Finance.
—arkansasonline.com, 17 Nov. 2023
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Word History
borrowed from French analyste "mathematician skilled in analysis," probably by haplology from *analysiste, from analyse or analysie analysis + -iste -ist entry 1
Note: French analyste would appear to be a derivative of analyser, a counterpart to analyze in English, but the French verb is apparently attested several decades later than the agent noun.
1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Analyst.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analyst. Accessed 3 Dec. 2023.
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