as in pharmacist
a person who prepares drugs according to a doctor's prescription
let's ask the chemist whether it's safe to take these two drugs together
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Recent Examples of chemist
Jorge Astorquiza, a Cuban-American chemist by trade and the co-owner of a Florida food production company founded in the 1970s, sees Havana’s latest outreach to entrepreneurs like him as a sign of desperation.
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Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026
The data company, Handshake, has seen a threefold increase in demand since last summer, and has a network of white-collar professionals from chemists to screenwriters providing data.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 18 Mar. 2026
This isn't the first time Ganzorigt and Bieber have played color chemist for an awards show.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 16 Mar. 2026
This led Nobel Laureate chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch to develop a process of combining nitrogen from the atmosphere with hydrogen at extreme temperatures and pressures in the presence of a catalyst.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
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Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026
The data company, Handshake, has seen a threefold increase in demand since last summer, and has a network of white-collar professionals from chemists to screenwriters providing data.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 18 Mar. 2026
This isn't the first time Ganzorigt and Bieber have played color chemist for an awards show.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 16 Mar. 2026
This led Nobel Laureate chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch to develop a process of combining nitrogen from the atmosphere with hydrogen at extreme temperatures and pressures in the presence of a catalyst.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chemist
pharmacist
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Sam An, a pharmacist at a compounding pharmacy until 2021, told me that his workplace employed about twenty people—pharmacists, technicians, cashiers, couriers—in what resembled a chemistry laboratory.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Charles Cram, a Los Angeles native, served as a Navy pharmacist’s mate — now known as a corpsman — providing lifesaving care to Marines during World War II.—
Adisa Hargett-Robinson,
The Washington Examiner,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Chemist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chemist. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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