theorist

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Recent Examples of theorist Laura Mulvey, the film theorist and filmmaker best known for her seminal essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, will be awarded a BFI Fellowship. Zac Ntim, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2025 As governor of the nation’s most populous state who portrays himself as a cutting-edge political theorist, Newsom has obvious advantages in seeking more name recognition. Dan Walters, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025 As political theorist Iris Marion Young emphasizes, democratic inclusion is a fundamental ethical requirement in governance. Davina Hurt, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025 Near the back of the Buck sat the biological theorist Aubrey de Grey, stroking a beard the size of a beagle. Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for theorist
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Noun
  • Although many philosophers and theologians accept mortality as an inevitable and indeed defining feature of human existence, Kurzweil refuses to accept this line of thinking.
    Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Perhaps psychologists and philosophers should prescribe this dazzling and disorienting novel as exposure therapy for both the sick and the well.
    Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Recent practitioner guidance highlights that careful recordkeeping and factual support can be the difference between victory and a costly recharacterization.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • This is a monthly recurring series with different themes and practitioners leading.
    American Booksellers Association, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025

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