as in investigators
one who observes or studies by close examination and systematic inquiry
medical researchers reported some eye-opening findings on the effectiveness of statins in the reduction of LDL in the bloodstream
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Recent Examples of researchers
By combining simple materials with smart engineering, MIT researchers created a tool that could save lives without lingering in the body.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Jan. 2026
Now, researchers at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea have broken this pattern.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 25 Jan. 2026
Public health researchers and consumer trend analysts attribute the trend, in part, to #sobertok — a community of TikTokers documenting their sobriety — as well as the rise in grocery and housing costs.
—Aria Bendix, NBC news, 24 Jan. 2026
In 2022, researchers fired particle accelerator beams at fragile pages from Germany’s Gutenberg Bible and Confucian texts from Korea, both from the mid-15th Century, with the Korean pages older.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
For these reasons, many researchers have started to reject this idea.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
Part of the researchers’ message is that exposure to harmful substances doesn’t just come from smokestacks or car exhaust.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
Keep portions to about 1 cup daily, as this is the amount researchers have studied.
—Health, 13 Jan. 2026
For example, advanced typists hammer away at the keyboard at 120 words per minute, but all that finger dexterity still only translates to ten bits per second of information processing, the researchers conclude.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Jan. 2026
Now, researchers at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea have broken this pattern.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 25 Jan. 2026
Public health researchers and consumer trend analysts attribute the trend, in part, to #sobertok — a community of TikTokers documenting their sobriety — as well as the rise in grocery and housing costs.
—Aria Bendix, NBC news, 24 Jan. 2026
In 2022, researchers fired particle accelerator beams at fragile pages from Germany’s Gutenberg Bible and Confucian texts from Korea, both from the mid-15th Century, with the Korean pages older.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
For these reasons, many researchers have started to reject this idea.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
Part of the researchers’ message is that exposure to harmful substances doesn’t just come from smokestacks or car exhaust.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
Keep portions to about 1 cup daily, as this is the amount researchers have studied.
—Health, 13 Jan. 2026
For example, advanced typists hammer away at the keyboard at 120 words per minute, but all that finger dexterity still only translates to ten bits per second of information processing, the researchers conclude.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for researchers
investigators
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The investigators and May expressed concern that DeCristo had not addressed her actions.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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Parents of students with disabilities have increasingly resorted to filing complaints with the state over their schools’ failure to educate their children, and most of the time, state investigators have agreed.—
Becca Savransky,
Idaho Statesman,
8 Jan. 2026
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