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
The research team led by Schlamminger performed a completely blind analysis, randomizing the values of the masses used to prevent experimenter bias.
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Big Think, 6 May 2026
The flagellar motor was discovered by the late Howard Berg, an ingenious experimenter who spent most of his career at Harvard.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
The sleeping subjects received math questions and dreamed about the solutions, relaying them to the experimenter.
—Veronique Greenwood, Time, 26 Feb. 2026
Then, an experimenter presented the bonobo with two empty, transparent cups and pretended to pour juice from an empty pitcher into each cup.
—Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
Anthropic’s experimenters were not thrilled.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
Horses that smelled the fear samples touched the experimenter less than those in a control group or those that smelled joyful sweat samples.
—Marta Hill, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2026
Bacharach and other pop greats were rescued later by experimenters like Elvis Costello and White Stripes.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 8 Jan. 2026
If the experimenter reads the information about which slit the photon passed through, there will never be an interference pattern.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2025
Big Think, 6 May 2026
The flagellar motor was discovered by the late Howard Berg, an ingenious experimenter who spent most of his career at Harvard.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Apr. 2026
The sleeping subjects received math questions and dreamed about the solutions, relaying them to the experimenter.
—Veronique Greenwood, Time, 26 Feb. 2026
Then, an experimenter presented the bonobo with two empty, transparent cups and pretended to pour juice from an empty pitcher into each cup.
—Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
Anthropic’s experimenters were not thrilled.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
Horses that smelled the fear samples touched the experimenter less than those in a control group or those that smelled joyful sweat samples.
—Marta Hill, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2026
Bacharach and other pop greats were rescued later by experimenters like Elvis Costello and White Stripes.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 8 Jan. 2026
If the experimenter reads the information about which slit the photon passed through, there will never be an interference pattern.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for experimenter
researcher
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Instead of hard materials, the researchers built CaroFlex from conductive hydrogels, soft materials that closely mimic the flexibility of biological tissue.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
15 May 2026
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Then, in a 2010 study published in PLOS One, researchers uncovered the real neural bases of the phenomenon.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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“Experimenter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/experimenter. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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