lab coat
noun
: a loose-fitting usually white coat with deep pockets that is worn in a laboratory or medical facility
Examples of lab coat in a Sentence
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Varied scenes — a suburban home, a doctor in white lab coat — flash by.
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Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
Wearing a lab coat, Eve Vitale asked a chemistry class at Warren Mott High School if anyone had heard anything bad about plastics.
—Evan Halper, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
Coached by McNicholas, Bernard donned her white lab coat and testified to the legislature.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2024
One person wears what appears to be a doctor’s lab coat.
—Abigail Williams, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2024
The agency determined that the contractor that manages Los Alamos had violated safety, procedural, management and quality-assurance rules.
Webster, also on the tour in his official yellow lab coat, says the lab and its workers take safety seriously but admits problems are inevitable.
—Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
This summer one billboard showed a smiling young woman in a lab coat with gloves.
—Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
Forensic pathologist Vitaliy Levchenko picked his way through them, hands resting in the pockets of his white lab coat.
—James Marson, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
Numerous studies have found that students—even those from non-Western cultures—view scientists as white, male, and wearing a white lab coat, while holding chemistry glassware such as beakers or flasks.
—Manasee Weerathunga, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2023
Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
Wearing a lab coat, Eve Vitale asked a chemistry class at Warren Mott High School if anyone had heard anything bad about plastics.
—Evan Halper, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
Coached by McNicholas, Bernard donned her white lab coat and testified to the legislature.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2024
One person wears what appears to be a doctor’s lab coat.
—Abigail Williams, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2024
The agency determined that the contractor that manages Los Alamos had violated safety, procedural, management and quality-assurance rules.
Webster, also on the tour in his official yellow lab coat, says the lab and its workers take safety seriously but admits problems are inevitable.
—Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
This summer one billboard showed a smiling young woman in a lab coat with gloves.
—Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
Forensic pathologist Vitaliy Levchenko picked his way through them, hands resting in the pockets of his white lab coat.
—James Marson, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
Numerous studies have found that students—even those from non-Western cultures—view scientists as white, male, and wearing a white lab coat, while holding chemistry glassware such as beakers or flasks.
—Manasee Weerathunga, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2023
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