Thesaurus results for PHARMACIST

pharmacist

noun

ˈfär-mə-sist

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 Johnson eventually connected with a helpful pharmacist at CVS who stayed on the phone with her and scoured an internal database to find enough to fill her son’s prescription at a pharmacy nearly an hour’s drive from her home. —

Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 5 Mar. 2026 The data reflects workers by major rather than job title, so not every pharmacy graduate is earning the typical six-figure salary for licensed pharmacists. —

Mike Winters, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2026 The bill says pharmacists and pharmacies would not be subject to professional discipline or civil or criminal penalties for distributing ivermectin. —

Stephen Gruber-Miller, Des Moines Register, 4 Mar. 2026 Owners David, a pharmacist, and Ryan, a counselor, began restoring historic homes out of personal passion before turning their knack for curation into a hospitality venture. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pharmacist

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chemist

Noun

When his mother, Waltraud Maria, a chemist, married his God-fearing father, Dietrich, an electrician, she was forced to sacrifice her Catholicism and her career in science to become a Protestant housewife.

— Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
The data company, Handshake, has seen a threefold increase in demand since last summer, and has a network of white-collar professionals from chemists to screenwriters providing data.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 18 Mar. 2026