How to Use experimentalist in a Sentence

experimentalist

noun
  • For the real experimentalists, Bless does well, and not just the apparel, but the objects.
    Mark Holgate, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The foundation, which would wind up spending $1 billion over the next 40 years on the project, ordered the two groups to merge, with a troika of two experimentalists, Drs.
    Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
  • So far, both the experimentalists and the theorists have found the exchange fruitful.
    Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2018
  • This is the kind of fun challenge that inspires experimentalists.
    Douglas Natelson, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Detroit experimentalist and texture king Jimmy Edgar is the kind of producer that opens a doorway in your mind.
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2021
  • But Kondo, as a theorist and not an experimentalist, was not the first to show that his supposition was correct.
    Kenneth Chang, Star Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Leave it to sartorial experimentalist Kelsey Lu to pull off the heelless heel.
    Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Chad Orzel does a great job of explaining why an experimentalist should be skeptical of this result.
    Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2010
  • The training and the culture of a plasma physics experimentalist is very different from that of a planetary scientist.
    Adam Frank, Scientific American, 21 July 2021
  • There have been several experimentalists that claim to have observed the supersolid state, but none of the experiments have been clear enough to make the claim unequivocal.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2018
  • For the classicist, there is Brandon Maxwell’s Texan shirtdress; for the experimentalist, Sacai’s pleated-front top.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Jesse Ball is one of our most prolific experimentalists.
    Alex Gilvarry, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Per usual, the lineup is packed with an overwhelming array of great artists, including some of jazz’s biggest and buzziest names alongside upstart experimentalists.
    Natalie Weiner, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The prospect of finding an unknown work of literature in the stash captivated much of Europe, and experimentalists tried various approaches to reading the papyri.
    Tomas Weber, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
  • At 23 years old, Miller had scant experience as an experimentalist.
    Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2016
  • Virtually every left-of-center rapper, rock band, pop artist, or noisy experimentalist playing has been championed by the site's review section.
    Chris Payne, Billboard, 26 June 2019
  • For a theorist, an observer or an experimentalist, dark matter is a promising target for research.
    Lisa Randall, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
  • Much to the frustration of impatient experimentalists, however, the mini-brains’ similarity to the real thing only went so far.
    Quanta Magazine, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Fermi was mainly known for being both a theorist and an experimentalist — a rare combination.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Their writers are genre fiction authors and experimentalists, nature poets and satirists, pulp fiction practitioners and trans-nationalists, writers of the weird, the quirky, the unsettled and unsettling.
    Adam Bradley, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Olson has recently worked on pieces based on or inspired by such diverse sources as the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen and contemporary electronic pop experimentalist Grimes.
    John Adamian, courant.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • An earlier team of experimentalists had a high margin of error, so their results were not sufficiently reliable.
    Michelle Frank, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • My grandmother, at 44, had earned a reputation as a tough and meticulous experimentalist.
    Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The giants of 18th- and 19th-century math — Euler, Gauss, Riemann — were all experimentalists who relied on massive amounts of computation, done laboriously by hand.
    Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Here are two disarming alto saxophonists working in different lanes of modern jazz: Tim Berne, a runic experimentalist with a slippery tone, and Caroline Davis, whose own original music takes the form of carefully threaded, fluent post-bop.
    New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Sometimes early 20th-century experimentalists couldn't be sure the particles were even tangible objects at all.
    Michelle Frank, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Though best known for his work on the alto and soprano saxophone, Benjamin was a versatile multi-instrumentalist and daring experimentalist.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
  • At meetings and workshops, theorists and experimentalists are working closely to coordinate the various proposals and plans for testing them.
    Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2013
  • For instance, an experimentalist might create two particles that fly off in opposing directions.
    George Musser, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
  • As theorists explore the math underpinning these exotic states, experimentalists have been devising new and better platforms for studying them.
    Quanta Magazine, 4 Apr. 2019

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