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
How did researchers make such detailed observations about shark behavior?
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Brady Dennis The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 22 Mar. 2026
To capture such tiny effects, the researchers point to atomic-clock systems as promising platforms.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Mar. 2026
Some projects in the San Joaquin Valley are successful and well-known enough that water managers and researchers have visited from other parts of the world, including China and Ukraine, to see how agencies are doing it, Muhar said.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2026
Speaking of which, social support and generosity are two of the six variables researchers look at to help explain the rankings in the annual World Happiness Report, released this week.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026
Every state and major river basin in the West is currently experiencing a snow drought, according to an NIDIS report written by Gerlich and other researchers.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
The researchers used a specific form of this therapy known as interoceptive exposure.
—Maggie O'Neill, Outside, 21 Mar. 2026
The pi constant is used in calculating how to form those droplets, surface tension calculations that define how droplets can break up, and how researchers can control the size of those volumes, Di Carlo said.
—ABC News, 14 Mar. 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
Brady Dennis The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 22 Mar. 2026
To capture such tiny effects, the researchers point to atomic-clock systems as promising platforms.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Mar. 2026
Some projects in the San Joaquin Valley are successful and well-known enough that water managers and researchers have visited from other parts of the world, including China and Ukraine, to see how agencies are doing it, Muhar said.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2026
Speaking of which, social support and generosity are two of the six variables researchers look at to help explain the rankings in the annual World Happiness Report, released this week.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026
Every state and major river basin in the West is currently experiencing a snow drought, according to an NIDIS report written by Gerlich and other researchers.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
The researchers used a specific form of this therapy known as interoceptive exposure.
—Maggie O'Neill, Outside, 21 Mar. 2026
The pi constant is used in calculating how to form those droplets, surface tension calculations that define how droplets can break up, and how researchers can control the size of those volumes, Di Carlo said.
—ABC News, 14 Mar. 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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He was last seen running near the outdoor gear store Cabela's, but investigators learned the suspect fled the complex in an unknown direction.—
Frederick Sutton Sinclair,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
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Those statements included details that only someone involved in the killing would know, investigators said.—
Emerson Clarridge
Updated March 21,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Mar. 2026
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