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 With a pharmacist’s help, Florie combined some vitamins, antioxidants and Western anti-inflammatory medication and administered it to his wife intravenously. —

Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026 Talk to your pharmacist or doctor about spacing them apart if needed. —

Patricia Weiser, Verywell Health, 7 Apr. 2026 Sam An, a pharmacist at a compounding pharmacy until 2021, told me that his workplace employed about twenty people—pharmacists, technicians, cashiers, couriers—in what resembled a chemistry laboratory. —

Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026 Charles Cram, a Los Angeles native, served as a Navy pharmacist’s mate — now known as a corpsman — providing lifesaving care to Marines during World War II. —

Adisa Hargett-Robinson, The Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pharmacist

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chemist

Noun

The era of oil drilling began not long after James Young, a Scottish chemist, collected a sample of petroleum near an English coal mine in the mid-nineteenth century.

— Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
The industry was at risk of collapsing—until the physical chemist Fritz Haber, at the behest of the German Supreme Command, managed to take a common by-product of dye manufacture and weaponize it.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026