as in pharmacists
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
Linus Pauling was one of the world’s greatest chemists.
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Big Think, 28 Jan. 2026
Carbon-fluorine bonds are usually known by chemists to be non-reactive.
—Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
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
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
Old and new neon British chemists discovered neon gas in 1898 and, by 1910, a French engineer began producing and selling neon tubes for advertising signs.
—Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 11 Jan. 2026
So chemists look for pathways that could inevitably lead to the formation of molecules like RNA.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 5 Jan. 2026
A number of chemists were initially skeptical of the study, which was based on analyzing brains from a small sample of cadavers.
—F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 25 Dec. 2025
Big Think, 28 Jan. 2026
Carbon-fluorine bonds are usually known by chemists to be non-reactive.
—Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
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
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
Old and new neon British chemists discovered neon gas in 1898 and, by 1910, a French engineer began producing and selling neon tubes for advertising signs.
—Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 11 Jan. 2026
So chemists look for pathways that could inevitably lead to the formation of molecules like RNA.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 5 Jan. 2026
A number of chemists were initially skeptical of the study, which was based on analyzing brains from a small sample of cadavers.
—F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 25 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chemists
pharmacists
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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
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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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“Chemists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chemists. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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