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theorist

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as in philosopher

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Recent Examples of theorist Yet in my experience, the typical high-energy theorist in a prestigious university physics department still thinks string theory has a good chance of being correct, at least in part. —

Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026 Carman Spoto Spoto is a filmmaker and film theorist from the Philadelphia area. —

Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Mar. 2026 And Neil Postman writes about this, the great twentieth-century media theorist. —

David Remnick, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026 To say the least, that is a complicated question, but for a glimpse, turn to the justification by the Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt of what happened in Germany on June 30, 1934. —

Cass Sunstein, Big Think, 5 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for theorist

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Tabarrok cited a quote by the Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli, that new things are harder to comprehend than old ones, even if the new ones might be better.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026
As the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) wrote in his magnum opus Leviathan, there would be no culture, no navigation, no knowledge of the face of the earth, no arts, no letters, no society; instead, there would be rapes, thefts, murders, and continual fear of violence.

— George G. Szpiro, Big Think, 9 Apr. 2026