How to Use preparator in a Sentence

preparator

noun

• Many of the slabs have been transferred to Beijing, where preparators are getting them ready for display.
  — Michelle Weber, Longreads, 21 Apr. 2018
• Ryan’s former work as a preparator helped in designing Re-Tool 21′s curriculum, Williams said.
  — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• Another preparator, Celeste Carballo, who wore a blue jumpsuit, was applying hairy tufts with a hot-glue gun.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• But as preparators carefully removed excess rock, Wang realized that the animal wasn't a bird at all.
  — National Geographic, 8 May 2019
• Eight preparators were working at that moment at different fossils.
  — Michelle Weber, Longreads, 21 Apr. 2018
• Local preparator Margarito González González, the only Mexican co-author on the paper, cleaned and prepared the fossil.
  — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2021
• Tynsky’s horse, with the limestone coating carefully cleaned off by a preparator, quickly attracted a $1 million offer, rumored to be from the Field Museum.
  — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
• According to an exhibit label, the museum’s preparators spent 1,300 hours preparing the fossil for display.
  — Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2024
• Claude Booker and Cecil Fergerson, art preparators at the museum, had formed the group in the aftermath of the 1965 Watts rebellion to agitate for diversified programming.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• The next day, Hodnett met with Tom Suazo, the museum’s fossil preparator, who showed him several other fossils that paleontologists had found nearby.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2021
• The center employs 64 stockkeepers, a media preparator, a kitchen assistant and five dishwashing personnel.
  — Star Tribune, 25 Dec. 2020
• She was joined by Angelina Lippert, the museum’s lead curator, and Rob Leonardi, the exhibition’s preparator and fabricator.
  — Adlan Jackson, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Some of them press questions scribbled on pieces of paper or typed in their phone against the glass, and the preparators answer them with notes of their own.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2026
• The art preparator is in charge of moving the work from place to place, while the curator handles the work in the studio.
  — Courtney Lane, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2025
• Researchers help by hiring staff as preparators or as guides during fieldwork, but more revenue is needed.
  — Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 17 July 2024