researchers

plural of researcher
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 Federal code requires researchers to register and certify inactivated viruses. CNN Money, 22 July 2026 Many of the entrepreneurs, engineers, physicians, researchers, and technology leaders driving today's economy first arrived as international students. Scott White, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 Jamf also found that the disk image itself had been signed, which researchers called unusual for malicious Mac delivery. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026 The field itself officially began at a gathering of researchers at Dartmouth in 1956, and federal funding provided much of the field’s early support. Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026 The models were tested with reduced cyber refusals, allowing researchers to measure their maximum capabilities without the production safeguards normally designed to block high-risk cyber activity. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026 One of those underwater researchers, also known as aquanauts, was Keragis. Alex Harris july 15, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026
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investigators
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  • Since then, investigators have interviewed about 60 witnesses, Ledbetter said, according to the Sun Herald in Mississippi.
    Holly Yan, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • According to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, investigators reviewed social media accounts, a website and a billboard in Latin America that advertised maternity packages at South Texas hospitals to foreign nationals.
    Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2026

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