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
Your pharmacist is a great resource to help with that.
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Karen Berger, Verywell Health, 18 May 2026
Allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer the contraceptive injection would help expand access to birth control across New York.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 May 2026
Gillman noted that his school’s health science and academic programs are training nurses, pharmacists and public health officials, and that UCI is engaged in research that brings innovation and hundreds of millions of dollars into the region.
—Victoria Le, Oc Register, 15 May 2026
This time, the pharmacist explained that the manufacturer had changed distributors for that generic pill, and the new distributor had updated the color.
—Barbara Wolf, STAT, 15 May 2026
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Karen Berger, Verywell Health, 18 May 2026
Allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer the contraceptive injection would help expand access to birth control across New York.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 May 2026
Gillman noted that his school’s health science and academic programs are training nurses, pharmacists and public health officials, and that UCI is engaged in research that brings innovation and hundreds of millions of dollars into the region.
—Victoria Le, Oc Register, 15 May 2026
This time, the pharmacist explained that the manufacturer had changed distributors for that generic pill, and the new distributor had updated the color.
—Barbara Wolf, STAT, 15 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for pharmacist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pharmacist
chemist
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But a team of MIT chemists has figured out how to make plastics vastly stronger by engineering them to break.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
3 June 2026
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The team’s chemists would isolate compounds from the juice, and then Sikiric would test those compounds using animal experiments.—
Sara Talpos — Undark,
STAT,
1 June 2026
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“Pharmacist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pharmacist. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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