How to Use scientist in a Sentence

scientist

noun
  • And the scientist also has said the birds are outsmarting us.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Then one day, hopefully, the doctors or the scientists can come up with a cure.
    Breanna Bell, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • But overall, the new study’s conclusions rang true to the Audubon scientists.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The seaweed has formed annual blooms in the Atlantic Ocean for years and scientists have tracked it since 2011.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 9 July 2023
  • But not all scientists are convinced by the new research.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 31 May 2023
  • The biggest pterosaur scientists know of so far is Quetzalcoatlus northropi, which was found in Texas.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 June 2023
  • For the past few years, scientists have been sounding the alarm about a steep decline in Antarctica’s sea ice.
    Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The scientists will also be able to compare samples of Bennu to Ryugu.
    WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The park scientists plan to monitor squirrels and woodpeckers to see how each species fares over the coming years, said Roland.
    Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Along the way, scientists will also have to prove that the technology is safe, durable, and cost-effective.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Lichtman: And for a long time, scientists had a simple explanation for how these birds landed all over the world.
    Flora Lichtman, Scientific American, 2 June 2023
  • Neither the bomb nor the computer can be credited to, or blamed on, any single scientist.
    Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The ashes belonged to the wife of the first owner, a scientist at Bell Labs, and Montoya considered the idea of returning the remains to the family, who might live far away.
    Curbed, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded today to three scientists for the discovery of quantum dots.
    Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2023
  • For decades, scientists have puzzled over what geologic engine is at work that brings heat from the Earth’s core to cause these eruptions.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2023
  • In fact, scientists speculate that the same principles explain the rapid expansion of the universe after the Big Bang.
    Eric Adams, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Much of the information is classified and out of reach even for some of the scientists involved in figuring out what happened.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The scientists plan to leave the sensors on for at least a year and are especially interested to see what happens during the winter.
    Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The ambition was staggering, say some scientists outside the project.
    Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 1 June 2023
  • But the university’s new lab space, and the opportunity to share ideas with like-minded scientists, should help change that.
    Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
  • All these abilities are the envy of scientists, who have spent a lot of time and money designing robots based on roaches.
    Steve Nicholls, Time, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Meteorologists, as the scientists of the newsroom, are well placed to talk about climate change.
    Chris Gloninger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
  • The solution isn’t to get rid of tires or electric cars, but perhaps shift the materials of the tires to natural or non-fossil fuel sources, the scientists said.
    Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
  • Space scientists had long assumed that such epic events take place and had even noticed a dearth of close planets in old star systems with larger stars, according to the new paper.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2023
  • The goal of many scientists is to tailor Alzheimer’s drugs to subsets of patients, depending on their genetic makeup.
    Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
  • Although scientists aren’t yet sure, there is some thought that such a large species would have required so much food that a diminishing forest could no longer support it.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
  • But with flu shots, scientists can predict the season's most dominant strain and formulate a vaccine that protects against that strain.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Such intense and long-lasting heat waves are expected to become more common in a warming world, climate scientists have said.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 7 July 2023
  • In short, teaser-like ads that have turned up in post-season football and Sunday night’s Grammys show, Goldblum emerges as a crowd of soldiers and scientists gaze at some entity that emits a bright light.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
  • They are used by scientists to study growth, survivorship and fish movement and have been inserted into some brown trout within the Colorado River.
    The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024

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