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
  • Our cousin is a speech pathologist and is familiar with signs of autism.
    Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Don was a pathologist who worked for hospitals in the region and pitched in at the wildlife clinic.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The pathologist could not determine the distance from which they were fired.
    Ben Finley and Jonathan Drew, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Michelle Wintering is a speech pathologist whose husband is in the Army.
    Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 15 May 2023
  • These samples will be sent to a lab and be analyzed by a pathologist.
    Barbara Brody, Health.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • The pathologist found the cause of death was sudden cardiac arrest due to heart disease and the effects of methamphetamine abuse.
    Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • But the pathologist was willing to attribute the broken jaw only to a hard impact.
    Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • O’Brien made the jewelry part-time, alongside her day job as a speech pathologist.
    Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 27 June 2021
  • Those final two shots were at a downward angle, the pathologist said.
    The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 10 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Eight climbers died in a blizzard; among the survivors was a Dallas pathologist, Beck Weathers.
    Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 9 July 2021
  • As Andy learns, Laura Oliver, the protective speech pathologist who raised her, has a lot to hide.
    Washington Post, 5 Mar. 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
  • Switzer said a pathologist will determine whether the fatal shot came from close range or a distance.
    Leah Willingham, Star Tribune, 10 May 2021
  • Hill was shot once in the chest and three times in the right leg, according to Dr. Elaine Amoresano, the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy.
    Amir Vera and Rebekah Riess, CNN, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The outlet added that two pathologists now believe the child was likely stillborn.
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Abby had one seven-inch-long wound on the side of her neck, pathologist Roland Kohr testified.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The body of the baby had most likely broken free shortly before their remains were recovered, the pathologist said.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024

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