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 Nurses and pharmacists scramble to rewrite orders. —

Alex Mejia Garcia, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for pharmacist

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chemist

Noun

There is still a lot of work to be done on improving and optimizing their designs, but the chemists believe that their discoveries may soon become commercially viable alternatives to today’s supercapacitors.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2026
Jorge Astorquiza, a Cuban-American chemist by trade and the co-owner of a Florida food production company founded in the 1970s, sees Havana’s latest outreach to entrepreneurs like him as a sign of desperation.

— Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026