How to Use pathologist in a Sentence

pathologist

noun
  • The pathologist did not rule on a cause of death, and the report could take five or six weeks to publish, Barnett said.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Another pathologist held up the foot; like a ray of light through a keyhole, the shrapnel had passed all the way through.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Michelle Wintering is a speech pathologist whose husband is in the Army.
    Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 15 May 2023
  • Ford said Stein encouraged him to smell the pills, but the detective refused and pushed away the pathologist’s hand.
    Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The first shot struck him in the heart and was determined to be the fatal blow by Dr. Jeffrey Reynolds, the pathologist who performed the autopsy.
    Fox News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Her body would lie there for more than 24 hours, until the state pathologist could meander down from Dublin.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Forensic pathologist Vitaliy Levchenko picked his way through them, hands resting in the pockets of his white lab coat.
    James Marson, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The bird will be inspected by an avian pathologist to determine the origin of the injury.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Faces of Death followed a pathologist's journey to explore gruesome ways to die through footage captured from around the world.
    Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 17 Mar. 2023
  • That hideaway lies below the city morgue where mother Olena now works as a pathologist.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Prosecutors also called back to the stand the pathologist who did the autopsies on the victims and their expert who studied the crime scene.
    CBS News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Brent Oblinger, a plant pathologist on the Deschutes National Forest, while in the process of conducting a portion of the survey.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Her lawyer, Malik Shabazz, said the conclusions of the independent pathologists could change the outcome of Ms. Lee’s case.
    Brian Howey, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Kenya’s state pathologist says many of the remains found show signs of extreme starvation, some were smothered, and a few showed blunt force trauma.
    David McKenzie, CNN, 19 June 2023
  • Still, 15 months ticked by before the local prosecutor was notified by the pathologist on the case, Dr. J. Brent Davis, that the death was a homicide.
    New York Times, 20 June 2022
  • In 2018, pathologist Dr. Martin Wirenfeldt Nielsen got a call.
    Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The next day, a forensic pathologist confirmed the family’s worst nightmare.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • But Gallagher reminded the jury of that time-stamp — 3:30 a.m. — that pathologist Michael Baden put as Cathy's possible time of death.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The pathologist also found Tylee’s heart connected to her right and left lung, a kidney, a portion of a liver and some fragments of brain matter.
    Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The pathologist also noted an injury that couldn’t as readily be attributed to the fall: Zac’s jaw was broken on the right side.
    Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The girl, Ariel Young, was in a coma for 11 days, in the hospital for two months, and still deals works daily with a speech pathologist and physical therapist.
    Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The crisp detail, the narrative brevity and the blade-sharp connections between the pathologist and the killer all bode well for future installments.
    Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The pathologist’s report found that Andrei died of swelling and hemorrhaging in the brain, but his parents got no answers about what happened.
    Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • An autopsy by a county pathologist found Reyes’ lungs had filled with fluid.
    Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
  • The forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy found dozens of scrapes and bruises, but ruled the case of death undetermined.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Five of the toddlers died shortly after movements deemed to be a brief seizure by a team of forensic pathologists, a seizure specialist and a sleep specialist.
    Lauran Neergaard, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Since then, Tlomak has started to tackle staffing problems, hiring two forensic pathologists set to start work in June and July of this year.
    Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2023
  • She was joined by a forensic pathologist, who used a variety of government records to help verify the identities of the dead.
    ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The cause of death for each of the dead will most likely be determined by state forensic pathologists or death investigators.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 17 June 2023
  • After all, that’s the whole point of screening — to figure out whether polyps contain cancer, they must be removed and examined by a pathologist.
    Michelle Andrews, Dallas News, 5 June 2022

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