as in chemists
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 pharmacists
Some said pharmacists could overcharge for a drug that normally costs pennies per pill.
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ABC News,
17 June 2026
Nurses, doctors and pharmacists, as well as health groups such as the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Cancer Society (ACS), had the broad support of 80 percent or more of respondents.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
9 June 2026
The pharmacists had kept hundreds of handwritten letters from customers whose skin had been healed, which soon also included my own.
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Rachel Burchfield,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Founders, lawyers, novelists, pharmacists, actresses, a former Secretary of State—is there any single demographic more consistently high-performing?
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Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
Allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer the contraceptive injection would help expand access to birth control across New York.
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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.
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Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
15 May 2026
In March, Mount Sinai, which employs 47,000 people, announced a new enterprise partnership with OpenEvidence to directly link to the service from the hospital system’s main electronic health record portal for use by doctors, nurses and pharmacists.
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Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
13 May 2026
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, a professional organization for pharmacists, includes 14 brands or dosages of estrogen patches in its most current list of drugs in shortage.
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Ed Silverman,
STAT,
11 May 2026
ABC News,
17 June 2026
Nurses, doctors and pharmacists, as well as health groups such as the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Cancer Society (ACS), had the broad support of 80 percent or more of respondents.
—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
9 June 2026
The pharmacists had kept hundreds of handwritten letters from customers whose skin had been healed, which soon also included my own.
—
Rachel Burchfield,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Founders, lawyers, novelists, pharmacists, actresses, a former Secretary of State—is there any single demographic more consistently high-performing?
—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
31 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
In March, Mount Sinai, which employs 47,000 people, announced a new enterprise partnership with OpenEvidence to directly link to the service from the hospital system’s main electronic health record portal for use by doctors, nurses and pharmacists.
—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
13 May 2026
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, a professional organization for pharmacists, includes 14 brands or dosages of estrogen patches in its most current list of drugs in shortage.
—
Ed Silverman,
STAT,
11 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pharmacists
chemists
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The system engineers fed that requirement back to the chemists.
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Mark Mitchnick, a pediatrician who invented transparent zinc oxide, which is known under the brand Z-Cote, said bemotrizinol will give chemists a new tool to make sunscreens that people will want to wear.
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“Pharmacists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pharmacists. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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