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
The office includes biologists, chemists, epidemiologists and toxicologists.
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Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 20 July 2025
Just one example, as noted by photo historian Bill Jay in his book Cyanide & Spirits, involved an unfortunate photo chemist who experienced two explosions of gun cotton in two years.
—Anika Burgess
july 17, Literary Hub, 17 July 2025
Drawing from obscure archival material, the episode outlines how a group of Dutch experts, most of them doctors and chemists, helped improve and formalise distillation techniques in Scotland.
—Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
The tintype format was introduced by chemist and physicist Hamilton Smith in 1856.
—Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025
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Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 20 July 2025
Just one example, as noted by photo historian Bill Jay in his book Cyanide & Spirits, involved an unfortunate photo chemist who experienced two explosions of gun cotton in two years.
—Anika Burgess
july 17, Literary Hub, 17 July 2025
Drawing from obscure archival material, the episode outlines how a group of Dutch experts, most of them doctors and chemists, helped improve and formalise distillation techniques in Scotland.
—Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
The tintype format was introduced by chemist and physicist Hamilton Smith in 1856.
—Kaila Philo, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chemist
pharmacist
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Part of her questioning nature, Marra said, comes from witnessing the beginnings of the opioid crisis firsthand as a pharmacist.—
Katy Golvala,
Hartford Courant,
4 Aug. 2025
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But peptide therapies for anti-aging and regenerative health are largely made by compounding pharmacists who use peptide components to formulate drugs that aren’t commercially available or approved for that particular use.—
Anjeanette Damon,
ProPublica,
30 July 2025
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“Chemist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chemist. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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