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pharmacist

noun

ˈfär-mə-sist

Definition of pharmacist

as in chemist

a person who prepares drugs according to a doctor's prescription the pharmacist caught an error in the prescription's dosage

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Recent Examples of pharmacist Schulze is most notably known as the eccentric pharmacist and illicit love interest, Eddie Walzer, on Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026 One of those determined to stay is Mohamad Aldabagh, a pharmacist from Homs who fled to Germany in 2015 at the height of Syria’s civil war. — Kirsten Grieshaber, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026 Harshbarger, a Republican who led the legislative push, is a pharmacist in a small city in northeastern Tennessee. — Blake Farmer, NPR, 5 Oct. 2026 Series centers on Laura, a small-town pharmacist and mother who runs a support group for abuse victims. — Carole Horst, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pharmacist

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Founded by Scripps chemist Peter Schultz, Wildcat built a high-throughput system that tests thousands of battery materials in parallel.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
For example, when a credit card is fragmented into particles some 10 microns in diameter, there is a more than 200-fold increase in its surface area, says Wei Min, a chemist at Columbia University and one of the senior authors of the study.

— Payal Dhar, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026

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