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 Swedish chemist, engineer and inventor Alfred Nobel liked a uniter, not a divider, even though his own experiments were aimed at blowing things up.
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Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
That’s according to a life-cycle analysis done by researchers led by James Tour, a chemist at Rice University.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2025
German scientists in the 1920s used heat and pressure to turn gas into liquid or solid hydrocarbons, and a chemist at Sunoco injected oxygen into those solids to create edible fats in the 1930s.
—Megan Sauer, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
The Two-Stage Tear Cascade While past research had already identified the irritant in onions—known to chemists as propanethial S-oxide—this study is the first to explain how the sulfur compound reaches a cook's eyes.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
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Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
That’s according to a life-cycle analysis done by researchers led by James Tour, a chemist at Rice University.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2025
German scientists in the 1920s used heat and pressure to turn gas into liquid or solid hydrocarbons, and a chemist at Sunoco injected oxygen into those solids to create edible fats in the 1930s.
—Megan Sauer, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
The Two-Stage Tear Cascade While past research had already identified the irritant in onions—known to chemists as propanethial S-oxide—this study is the first to explain how the sulfur compound reaches a cook's eyes.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chemist
pharmacist
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Types of health care providers may include people like physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists and physician assistants.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025
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However, secretive and unregulated practices by PBMs, which are heavily consolidated, have led to a chorus of drug manufacturers, pharmacists, and government regulators calling for more oversight.—
Kate Wolffe,
Sacbee.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Chemist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chemist. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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