chemist

Definition of chemistnext
British
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 Many companies do actually employ professionals—cosmetic chemists, food scientists. Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026 Cocoa butter is made of fat molecules that can arrange themselves in six different crystal shapes (which chemists call ‘polymorphs’). Clarissa Brincat, Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2026 As a protein chemist, Jogikalmath understands how proteins unravel. Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 20 Jan. 2026 The first is for chemists and engineers to develop new chips that can use more easily obtainable minerals, such as copper or aluminum, instead of rarer minerals like gold. Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for chemist
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pharmacist
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  • Between 1995 and 2015, both publications—which have a combined circulation of some eighty thousand Canadian family doctors and pharmacists—regularly ran columns from the Motherisk team without subjecting them to peer review.
    Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Kaiser Permanente, an early adopter of ambient AI scribe technology, provides it to more than 25,000 doctors, advanced practice providers, and pharmacists systemwide.
    Michelle Andrews, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2026

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“Chemist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chemist. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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