theorists

plural of theorist

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for theorists
Noun
  • 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
  • Recovering from writing a book about the pre-Socratic philosophers.
    Teddy Wayne September 9, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At stations five and eight, Rita Tupe, an older woman with tattoos on her lips and chin, and Harata Simeon stood with their peers—a group of practitioners of rongoā, traditional Maori healing, who had travelled from New Zealand.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Academics can also study hundreds of cases to draw somewhat generalizable insights whereas practitioners are somewhat condemned to only experience small samples in their professional lives (working at say five or ten employers, at the most).
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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