philosopher

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Recent Examples of philosopher Advice on life’s trickiest situations and moral dilemmas from the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah. January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 3 May 2025 Historian Wildman says the suffering the philosophers witnessed right on their doorstep helped shape their ideas. Lauren Frayer, NPR, 19 Apr. 2025 With the many major post-industrial revolution technological and scientific advances, philosophers were looking for an alternative to Kant and his rationalist philosophy, where the theoretical rules. Theodore McDarrah, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025 Yet as the philosopher Olufemi Taiwo has convincingly argued, this approach is wrong on two counts. Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for philosopher
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Noun
  • Terrain theorists consider disease a symptom of an unhealthy internal state, suggesting that anyone who gets sick is unhealthy and that all disease-causing germs are purely opportunistic.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2025
  • But the spirit of Mamacita—my late, Black Baptist great-grandmama, a colleague of dandy theorists W.E.B. DuBois and Alain Locke—was louder in my ear.
    Akilah Sailers, Essence, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Middle managers need to become role models with a practitioner approach, keeping all aspects of ethical biases.
    Balmukund Shukla, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • Lindsay, an omega-level practitioner of the reality-television arts and sciences, is playing this all wrong.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Benavides was in that meeting as well, serving as an interpreter and a coach.
    C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • Living history interpreters will interact with the public, describing the events of the time and the life of soldiers on campaign during the early 1800s.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2025

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