Examples of aquarist in a Sentence
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SeaWorld Orlando senior aquarist Becki Orze points out the male smalltooth sawfish that fathered three baby smalltooth sawfish who were born at SeaWorld Orlando, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, in Orlando, Florida.
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Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2023
Papaya was seen again Saturday near Redondo Canyon by Eric Martin, aquarist director at Roundhouse Aquarium, who used an underwater device called a hydrophone to listen for the rhythmic clicking of the whale’s echolocation to find him.
—Saumya Gupta, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
Oregon Coast Aquarium aquarist Tiffany Rudek, who was on the team measuring the stars, has spent years working on treatments for sea stars suffering from wasting disease.
—oregonlive, 8 June 2023
In a rare and wondrous moment, more than 70 weedy seadragons have hatched at UC San Diego’s Birch Aquarium, where the delicate, shiny, inch-long fish are under the doting care of aquarists.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
Brian Jones, senior aquarist at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab’s Estuarium, said that based on Jones’ photos this one could easily have weighed 300, maybe more. Brian Jones was one of the people from the Sea Lab who came to the boat after April Jones came running for help.
—al, 18 July 2022
Taylor Sakmar, also a Monterey Bay aquarist, came to Cape Cod to help build a new kind of facility for many-armed animals.
—New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
The aquarium is also the first outside Japan to propagate salmon snailfish, according to senior aquarist Alicia Bitondo.
—Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2022
For the event, the aquarium's senior aquarist, Dylan Salamone, tossed two small branded footballs — each featuring the logo of one of the Super Bowl 2022 teams — into Rasal's exhibit and let the seal choose which one to retrieve.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 10 Feb. 2022
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Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2023
Papaya was seen again Saturday near Redondo Canyon by Eric Martin, aquarist director at Roundhouse Aquarium, who used an underwater device called a hydrophone to listen for the rhythmic clicking of the whale’s echolocation to find him.
—Saumya Gupta, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
Oregon Coast Aquarium aquarist Tiffany Rudek, who was on the team measuring the stars, has spent years working on treatments for sea stars suffering from wasting disease.
—oregonlive, 8 June 2023
In a rare and wondrous moment, more than 70 weedy seadragons have hatched at UC San Diego’s Birch Aquarium, where the delicate, shiny, inch-long fish are under the doting care of aquarists.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
Brian Jones, senior aquarist at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab’s Estuarium, said that based on Jones’ photos this one could easily have weighed 300, maybe more. Brian Jones was one of the people from the Sea Lab who came to the boat after April Jones came running for help.
—al, 18 July 2022
Taylor Sakmar, also a Monterey Bay aquarist, came to Cape Cod to help build a new kind of facility for many-armed animals.
—New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
The aquarium is also the first outside Japan to propagate salmon snailfish, according to senior aquarist Alicia Bitondo.
—Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2022
For the event, the aquarium's senior aquarist, Dylan Salamone, tossed two small branded footballs — each featuring the logo of one of the Super Bowl 2022 teams — into Rasal's exhibit and let the seal choose which one to retrieve.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 10 Feb. 2022
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First Known Use
1863, in the meaning defined above
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“Aquarist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aquarist. Accessed 29 Nov. 2023.
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aquarist
noun
aquar·ist
ə-ˈkwar-əst 
-ˈkwer-
: one who keeps an aquarium
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