theorist

noun

the·o·rist ˈthē-ə-rist

ˈthir-ist

Synonyms of theorist next

: a person who theorizes

Examples of theorist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Sedgwick, who was also one of the great theorists of shame, saw the relationship between mother and child as a model for the isolation (and, more surprisingly, the possibility of intimacy) that shame can produce. —

Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023 More recently, theorists have begun using a new tool to calculate hadronic blobs: lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD). —

Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2023 Preciado, a Spanish philosopher and theorist, clearly has good taste in formal influences: Jean-Luc Godard, the multi-layered investigations of Agnès Varda and Chris Marker. —

Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023 He’s considered one of the field’s most influential theorists. —

David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023 And, as noted, ALC ignores the centuries of natural-law theorists who, like Aquinas, endorsed the conclusion that the people hold ultimate political authority. —

J. Joel Alicea, National Review, 30 Aug. 2023 Yet theorists were rarely persuaded by any of the experiments and data. —

Elizabeth Finkel, Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023 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 This is not just the position of French theorists and post-truth relativists. —

Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023 See More

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