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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 chemists
So chemists look for pathways that could inevitably lead to the formation of molecules like RNA.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 5 Jan. 2026
Some skeptical chemists were quoted in the media, but most of the public just saw clickable headlines or TV outrage, taking these very preliminary findings as fact.
—F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 25 Dec. 2025
Robots are now doing what once took chemists months, building potential antibiotics in days as drug resistance tightens its grip on the world.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2025
The researchers are also chemists at ChemCentre, a chemical science facility in Western Australia.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2025
Publication of the initial discovery of chemists Glenn Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph Kennedy and Edwin McMillan was withdrawn after an isotope, Pu-239, was found to undergo nuclear fission to release energy that could fuel the bomb.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 13 Dec. 2025
Traditionally, chemists use these mass fragments as puzzle pieces to reconstruct each molecular structure, but having tens of thousands of compounds in each sample presented a challenge.
—Amirali Aghazadeh, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
Suddenly a market boomed for mathematicians, physicists, coders, chemists, lawyers, and others to create specialized data, which companies used to reinforce their AI models’ reasoning.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
The organization taps a multidisciplinary group of physicians, scientists, chemists, engineers, epidemiologists, economists, psychologists, statisticians, sociologists, and community members to turn scientific discovery into actionable knowledge.
—Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
Keith Cooper, Space.com, 5 Jan. 2026
Some skeptical chemists were quoted in the media, but most of the public just saw clickable headlines or TV outrage, taking these very preliminary findings as fact.
—F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 25 Dec. 2025
Robots are now doing what once took chemists months, building potential antibiotics in days as drug resistance tightens its grip on the world.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2025
The researchers are also chemists at ChemCentre, a chemical science facility in Western Australia.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2025
Publication of the initial discovery of chemists Glenn Seaborg, Arthur Wahl, Joseph Kennedy and Edwin McMillan was withdrawn after an isotope, Pu-239, was found to undergo nuclear fission to release energy that could fuel the bomb.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 13 Dec. 2025
Traditionally, chemists use these mass fragments as puzzle pieces to reconstruct each molecular structure, but having tens of thousands of compounds in each sample presented a challenge.
—Amirali Aghazadeh, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
Suddenly a market boomed for mathematicians, physicists, coders, chemists, lawyers, and others to create specialized data, which companies used to reinforce their AI models’ reasoning.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
The organization taps a multidisciplinary group of physicians, scientists, chemists, engineers, epidemiologists, economists, psychologists, statisticians, sociologists, and community members to turn scientific discovery into actionable knowledge.
—Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chemists
pharmacists
Noun
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Median income is $137,480 for the nation’s 337,700 pharmacists, and the field should grow 5% by 2033.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
30 Dec. 2025
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Those charged include midwives, nurses, pharmacists and another surgeon.—
Jessica Schreifels,
CNN Money,
18 Dec. 2025
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“Chemists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chemists. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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