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Alarmed, Augustine hardened his doctrine of grace, becoming its great theorist.
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Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
The series borrows from and advances the term psychogeography, coined in 1955 by French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, and revolutionary Guy Debord to describe the effect that geographical environments have on the emotions and behavior of individuals.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Political theorist Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), an Italian anti-fascist journalist, organizer, and imprisoned political dissident, offered a conception of society and described the possibilities for changing social orders.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025
In the 1920s, the Bolshevik economic theorist and Communist Party darling Nikolai Bukharin was one of Stalin’s closest allies.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2025
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Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
The series borrows from and advances the term psychogeography, coined in 1955 by French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, and revolutionary Guy Debord to describe the effect that geographical environments have on the emotions and behavior of individuals.
—Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Political theorist Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), an Italian anti-fascist journalist, organizer, and imprisoned political dissident, offered a conception of society and described the possibilities for changing social orders.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025
In the 1920s, the Bolshevik economic theorist and Communist Party darling Nikolai Bukharin was one of Stalin’s closest allies.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for theorist
Noun
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The lead horse is upright, tense, its ears perked, while the other hangs its head, as if thinking deeply, horses think many things and are the closest of all animals to philosophers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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North, the philosopher of physics, agrees with Lu.—
Daniel Garisto,
Quanta Magazine,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Now, fire researchers, managers and practitioners are looking to it for answers.—
Sarah Henry,
AZCentral.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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Its practitioners were devoted to the close reading of texts, independent of their authors’ social and historical circumstances.—
Michael Gorra,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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