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theorist

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as in philosopher

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Recent Examples of theorist The hotel’s design concept weaves a story around the fictional historic Lamarck University, an homage to the French evolutionary theorist, which was supposedly founded in 1894, then abandoned in the 1940s, and ultimately restored by Marriott. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026 In the 1985 book No Sense of Place, the media theorist Joshua Meyrowitz observed that television and other electronic media inundated Americans with new kinds of information about their prospective leaders. — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026 Biologists ranging from the evolutionary theorist Ernst Mayr to the pioneer of molecular biology Jacques Monod have acknowledged that. — Quanta Magazine, 8 July 2026 That’s one of the things that's true, is that some people called me a conspiracy [theorist] on the Epstein stuff. — ABC News, 16 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for theorist

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Come for the lowdown on Falcons QB Tua Tagovailoa, stay for the riff on English philosopher Jeremy Bentham.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 20 Aug. 2026
At the core of the book is a dialogue between the first-person narrator, Thomas More, and the seafaring philosopher Raphael Hythlodaeus.

— Carline Tromp, The Dial, 18 Aug. 2026

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Drugs became a central part of their relationship, and early on, Watts brought McCollough to a practitioner for an intramuscular ketamine injection.

— Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026
Among wellness practitioners, a detox is usually intertwined with total healing and not focused on a single method.

— BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026

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