How to Use pathologist in a Sentence

pathologist

noun
  • Plant pathologists tell us not to prune them during the spring.
    Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Our cousin is a speech pathologist and is familiar with signs of autism.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The doctor may take it out, may have to send it to the pathologist for a frozen section.
    Fox News, 12 Mar. 2018
  • But there’s also a huge shortage of speech pathologists in the world.
    Eric Johnson, Recode, 14 Oct. 2018
  • Speech-language pathologists would move to a higher pay scale.
    Sacbee.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Once again, the pathologist could not determine cause of death.
    Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
  • These samples will be sent to a lab and be analyzed by a pathologist.
    Barbara Brody, Health.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The pathologists at the time did not say whether CTE played a role.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Nearly all of the injuries would have been lethal, a pathologist told police.
    Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Those final two shots were at a downward angle, the pathologist said.
    The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Through a microscope, pathologists can see a great deal about a tumor.
    Angus Chen, STAT, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The pathologist could not determine the distance from which they were fired.
    Ben Finley and Jonathan Drew, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Don was a pathologist who worked for hospitals in the region and pitched in at the wildlife clinic.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Hayne, the pathologist, is deceased.
    Jack Brook The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2025
  • In it, the pathologists described what steps the doctors and nurses took to try to save the babies.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 18 May 2026
  • Switzer said a pathologist will determine whether the fatal shot came from close range or a distance.
    Leah Willingham, Star Tribune, 10 May 2021
  • The Tufts veterinary pathologist and teacher left academia for a whole new world.
    Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The outlet added that two pathologists now believe the child was likely stillborn.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
  • But the death of Stokes, an Irish pathologist, offered a new way forward.
    Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Another pathologist held up the foot; like a ray of light through a keyhole, the shrapnel had passed all the way through.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The release said a forensic pathologist will determine the cause of death.
    Harry Harris, Mercury News, 19 Dec. 2025
  • O’Brien made the jewelry part-time, alongside her day job as a speech pathologist.
    Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 27 June 2021
  • But the pathologist was willing to attribute the broken jaw only to a hard impact.
    Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The pathologist concluded that the girl was dead before she was put in the pool, the affidavit says.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 4 July 2025
  • The pathologist identified three clear gunshot wound paths to Good’s body.
    Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The pathologist did not rule on a cause of death, and the report could take five or six weeks to publish, Barnett said.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • There was no clothing found with the remains, and a pathologist was unable to determine how long the bones had been there.
    Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Each area of prostate cancer may have a different grade, so pathologists pick the two areas that make up most of the cancer.
    Ed O'Keefe, CBS News, 19 May 2025
  • But the pathologist saw that rope mark on Michele's chin and petechial hemorrhaging in her eyes.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Michelle Wintering is a speech pathologist whose husband is in the Army.
    Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 15 May 2023

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