SPECIALISTS Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

specialists

noun

plural of specialist

as in professionals

a person who has a lot of training, knowledge, or skill in a particular area She was a specialist in chemical engineering with many years of experience.

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Recent Examples of specialists The classic gangster films, mostly made by the Toei studio in the nineteen-sixties, starred such specialists in the yakuza genre as Takakura Ken—Ken-san to his many fans—and followed a simple formula. — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 In some cases, patients undergo evaluations by multiple specialists before identifying a potential explanation. — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026 Hospitals bolster their side by hiring risk adjustment specialists and employing AI tools, while health insurers hire payment integrity specialists and employ different AI tools. — Leah Pierson, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026 People handle the judgment, and clinical validation stays with the specialists. — Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026 Energy specialists are awestruck by its industrial dominance in batteries and solar power. — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026 However, the country isn’t producing enough STEM specialists to meet demand. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026 DeFoe has very limited experience fishing at Lake Hamilton, but his partner Gill is one of the most formidable specialists with forward-facing sonar. — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2026 Police cordoned off three trucks at the scene and evacuated about 85 households as bomb-disposal specialists and the army investigated. — Pan Pylas, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026

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This includes educating and training thousands of engineers, maritime specialists, nuclear tradespeople and other professionals to support the enterprise across its full lifecycle, as per the release.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
Beyond the public program, SFFILM’s artist development team will convene Doc Congress, a day of dialogue and networking for filmmakers, funders, and industry professionals.

— Addie Morfoot, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of professionals

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The panel of outside experts that met in July was selected by Kennedy's health department and included several doctors, pharmacists and consultants who work in the peptide field.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
If California couldn't enforce basic travel and staffing requirements, who was overseeing the rest of the quarter-billion dollars paid to these consultants?

— Tyler Horst, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026

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