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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 Only one copy will ever legally exist, in a protest against the loss of music’s aura in the age of its digital reproducibility, to paraphrase German philosopher Walter Benjamin. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2026 The justice of going to war—what philosophers call jus ad bellum—is separate from jus in bello, the justice of how a war is fought. — Jordi Graupera, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026 Plato and Aristotle were not big fans of democracy, notes British philosopher Julian Baggini. — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2026 In the 1980s, the French philosopher Roland Barthes called it the punctum. — Elena Clavarino, Air Mail, 17 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for philosopher

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The histories of Habsburg Spain, ancien régime France, the Ottomans, Austria-Hungary, and the United Kingdom all illustrate the eighteenth-century political theorist Adam Ferguson’s insight that high debts ultimately induce decline.

— NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
Richard Dawkins, the British evolutionary theorist and author of the groundbreaking best seller The Selfish Gene (1976), among many other books, appears to have gone a bit mad.

— James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026

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Even the most gifted practitioner of satire — looking at my shelf full of Carl Hiassen novels — couldn’t make up this stuff.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
Nevertheless, Michelle Remembers became a bestseller as well as a resource for law enforcement and mental health practitioners, who took the stories to heart and expected to find similar crimes in their communities.

— Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026

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Accompanying him is Erika (Sandra Hüller), his daughter and fellow writer, who begrudgingly serves as interpreter, personal assistant and driver.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Anderson was heralded as an interpreter of songs, like his friends and mentors Haggard and Jones.

— Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2026

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