Examples of theorist in a Sentence
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Today, the French probability theorist Michel Talagrand was awarded the Abel Prize, one of the highest honors in mathematics, for developing a deep and sophisticated understanding of such processes.
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Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
The lesson highlights Edward Said, the Palestinian American literary scholar and theorist of settler colonialism.
—Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
In the ‘90s, more neighborhoods across L.A. sought to fully or partly close roads because of rising crime, even as city planners and urban theorists criticized the trend.
—Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
The pioneering theorist shows how gender hysteria is used by right-wing movements to fuel anxiety and fear.
7 BURN BOOK (Simon & Schuster $30).
—Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
Postman, an acolyte of the influential Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, argued that if McLuhan’s most famous postulation was correct—that the medium is the message—then television was a uniquely destructive and obscurantist force that had already ruined American discourse.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
Indeed, Gorsuch’s dissertation advisor, the natural-law theorist John Finnis, was committed to this project.
—Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2024
Consider the French Swiss political theorist Benjamin Constant (1767–1830).
—Helena Rosenblatt, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
Here’s my interpretation of Saito, the theorist, in practice: Live in a small apartment rather than a big, drafty house.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
The lesson highlights Edward Said, the Palestinian American literary scholar and theorist of settler colonialism.
—Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
In the ‘90s, more neighborhoods across L.A. sought to fully or partly close roads because of rising crime, even as city planners and urban theorists criticized the trend.
—Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
The pioneering theorist shows how gender hysteria is used by right-wing movements to fuel anxiety and fear.
7 BURN BOOK (Simon & Schuster $30).
—Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
Postman, an acolyte of the influential Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, argued that if McLuhan’s most famous postulation was correct—that the medium is the message—then television was a uniquely destructive and obscurantist force that had already ruined American discourse.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
Indeed, Gorsuch’s dissertation advisor, the natural-law theorist John Finnis, was committed to this project.
—Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2024
Consider the French Swiss political theorist Benjamin Constant (1767–1830).
—Helena Rosenblatt, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
Here’s my interpretation of Saito, the theorist, in practice: Live in a small apartment rather than a big, drafty house.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
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theorist
noun
the·o·rist
ˈthē-ə-rəst 
ˈthi(-ə)r-əst
: a person who theorizes
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