as in researcher
one who observes or studies by close examination and systematic inquiry
a psychology experimenter doing research into the sources of panic attacks
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Recent Examples of experimenter
Quantum theorists and experimenters are working within these constraints to find feasible tasks for their devices to show an advantage over the performance of classical computers.
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Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
In 2021, a group of researchers at the Paris Brain Institute, including Andrillon, discovered that these self-experimenters had gotten it right.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
An experimenter screens individuals from a population for a trait of interest, and only those that meet a certain threshold are allowed to reproduce to create the next generation.
—Shraddha Lall, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025
The demonstrator performs an action thrice in response to the gestural command of the experimenter, 3–5 s following which the second experimenter gives the same gestural command to the test subject in a test trial.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
OceanGate co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush fancied himself an adventurer, visionary and MacGyver-esque experimenter.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2025
Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
In 2021, a group of researchers at the Paris Brain Institute, including Andrillon, discovered that these self-experimenters had gotten it right.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
An experimenter screens individuals from a population for a trait of interest, and only those that meet a certain threshold are allowed to reproduce to create the next generation.
—Shraddha Lall, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025
The demonstrator performs an action thrice in response to the gestural command of the experimenter, 3–5 s following which the second experimenter gives the same gestural command to the test subject in a test trial.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
OceanGate co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush fancied himself an adventurer, visionary and MacGyver-esque experimenter.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for experimenter
researcher
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Smith’s 73 total innings caught in this World Series marked the most ever, according to researcher Sarah Langs, passing Lou Criger, who caught 71 innings for the Boston Americans in the first World Series ever played.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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School start times are a big problem, but after school demands on teens also steal their sleep, says Mary Carskadon, a sleep researcher at Brown University.—
NPR,
NPR,
2 Nov. 2025
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