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philosopher

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as in theorist

a person who expresses a theory in a particular area of experience a philosopher of freedom

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Recent Examples of philosopher By personal choice and historical circumstance, these philosophers’ lives were as far from ordinary as their beliefs. — Emily Eakin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026 Kara Young, as the hood philosopher Fontaine, starts the show. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 25 July 2026 Her business-strategy forecasting was met with sarcasm and disdain — her role as pop’s leading philosopher somewhat rejected by people online. — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 23 July 2026 Perhaps more surprisingly, Anthropic has in recent weeks also picked up a Stanford economist, a theoretical physicist from the University of Maryland, and an analytic philosopher from UT Austin. — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for philosopher

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The hotel’s design concept weaves a story around the fictional historic Lamarck University, an homage to the French evolutionary theorist, which was supposedly founded in 1894, then abandoned in the 1940s, and ultimately restored by Marriott.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026
In the 1985 book No Sense of Place, the media theorist Joshua Meyrowitz observed that television and other electronic media inundated Americans with new kinds of information about their prospective leaders.

— Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

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In 2025, Sunshine Health issued a temporary pause on adding practitioners to make sure the state's network providers are all credentialed.

— Larry Seward, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Rounding out the group is Alex Enchin, who helps individuals and families find the best practitioners and modalities across the holistic and alternative mental-health fields—including access to the world’s leading psychedelic resources.

— Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 29 July 2026

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After the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, interpreters understood Temple service broadly in terms of study, prayer, and upholding the commandments.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
The multilingual teenager who acted as an interpreter between the team and British rescue divers belongs to the Wa ethnic minority and was born stateless.

— H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 24 July 2026

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