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 Sims was a pharmacist and the owner of Sims Enterprises. —

Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2026 Every physician, every nurse, every pharmacist and the Public Health Service Corps has to maintain an active license. —

CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026 The infusion center started with two chairs but has since grown to encompass 10 spots for patients, three full-time pharmacists and three full-time oncology nurses. —

Caleb Hellerman, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2026 For Bryan Biehl, a pharmacist from the Philadelphia suburbs, the legalization of online sports gambling came shortly after his 21st birthday. —

ABC News, 27 Mar. 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