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
Oresme’s Problemata has been well researched — much of the text is even available online —but the philosopher’s claims about the Shroud had been overlooked for centuries.
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Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
The National Conservatism Conference, called Natcon, was started in May 2019 by Israeli-American philosopher Yoram Hazony to bring together and advance nationalist conservative thought leaders from around the world.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2025
Maimonides, the ancient Jewish philosopher, described eight levels of giving.
—Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
And this is how not poets or artists or philosophers, but rather middle managers brought about the birth of writing.
—Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
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Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
The National Conservatism Conference, called Natcon, was started in May 2019 by Israeli-American philosopher Yoram Hazony to bring together and advance nationalist conservative thought leaders from around the world.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2025
Maimonides, the ancient Jewish philosopher, described eight levels of giving.
—Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
And this is how not poets or artists or philosophers, but rather middle managers brought about the birth of writing.
—Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for philosopher
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This is precisely as the great media theorist Marshall McLuhan predicted.—
David G.W. Birch,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Laura Mulvey, the film theorist and filmmaker best known for her seminal essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, will be awarded a BFI Fellowship.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Academics can also study hundreds of cases to draw somewhat generalizable insights whereas practitioners are somewhat condemned to only experience small samples in their professional lives (working at say five or ten employers, at the most).—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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The creation of the alliance feels necessary to some public health practitioners.—
Pien Huang,
NPR,
6 Sep. 2025
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These technologies can help boards and other stakeholders move from passive receivers of information to active interpreters and strategic partners.—
Michael Hilb,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The competition’s official language is English; some people bring interpreters, but the work speaks for itself.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Philosopher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/philosopher. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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