How to Use scientific in a Sentence

scientific

adjective
  • Note: These polls are not and do not claim to be scientific.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 2 June 2024
  • Those cells — the first to live outside the body in a glass tube — brought decades of scientific advances.
    Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2022
  • But there doesn’t seem to be a lot of scientific evidence to back that up just yet.
    Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The full results of the Texas study have not been made public or published in a scientific journal.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 10 Sep. 2023
  • In just the past two years, scientific research has saved millions of lives.
    Saloni Dattani, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
  • In the scientific terms there are two types of these tiny bits of organic matter.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Berci has written dozens of books and scientific papers on all of this.
    Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Why not get scientific about the proofing process for your Parker House rolls?
    Editors Of Bon Appétit, Bon Appétit, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Fake news was now a superbug, and here, from MIT, was scientific proof.
    Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The team plans to publish the work in a scientific journal, but the research hasn’t yet undergone peer review.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
  • There is a whiff of the scientific, or scientistic, about it.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Feb. 2024
  • On that day a tranche of the first scientific images will be released to scientists.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 9 July 2022
  • The botanical name, also called the scientific name, is in Latin.
    Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2022
  • The mission promised to break new scientific pathways and make careers.
    David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
  • That lasted for about 20 years until the discovery of an error in how the scientific name was applied, and the study was thrown out.
    Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 11 July 2024
  • The thing is, the cannabis industry needs more than just scientific backing.
    Hazey Taughtme, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2022
  • And whether the scientific community can be ready in less than a decade is an open question.
    Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
  • But there is not a clear scientific consensus on this point.
    USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
  • Flores, Indonesia is the home of the scientific study of small humans.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
  • It is based on a review of the most recent scientific data for each vaccine.
    Tribune News Service, al, 24 May 2022
  • More than four scientific studies have pinned a large part of the decline on human climate change.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2023
  • But the West’s most recent megadrought isn’t just written in scientific data.
    Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
  • As the editor of a scientific journal, I was mortified to read the claims laid out in Lewis-Kraus’s article.
    Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • On July 12th, the first five scientific images taken by the telescope were released to the public.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • In the months and years after the meeting, the FDA repeatedly asked the company to gather more scientific data on the drug.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • But, based on the scientific research published in a study from 2020, there is one thing that humans can do to really build rapport with a cat, and that is slow blink.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The scientific community has been studying the effects of spaceflight on the human body since the 1970s.
    Fernanda González, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The agency had already been weakened by attacks on its scientific side during the first Trump term.
    Zeynep Tufekci, The Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The helpline volunteers referred to the guidelines developed by global and regional scientific bodies, such as the WHO.
    Marta Martínez, NPR, 8 June 2025
  • Viewing your own biology in a more objective way by learning more about the scientific basis of sleep paralysis is also helpful, Jalal said.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 8 June 2025

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