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Almost everyone at the creek encampment accepted some form of aid, according to Sofia Hughes, the project’s leader and a management analyst with the city of Oceanside.—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2025 The investment bank’s analysts were among a rising number of their peers lining up to trim their oil price predictions for 2025-26 down to the $60s or below.—Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025 Jay O’Brien with Freedom Caucus Chair, Andy Harris, and we're joined now to talk about all this with our analyst, Donna Brazile and Chris Christie.—ABC News, 6 July 2025 Fans also have the freedom to fire back at an analyst's opinion.—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for analyst
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from French analyste "mathematician skilled in analysis," probably by haplology from *analysiste, from analyse or analysieanalysis + -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.
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