How to Use preparator in a Sentence

preparator

noun
  • Many of the slabs have been transferred to Beijing, where preparators are getting them ready for display.
    Michelle Weber, Longreads, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Ryan’s former work as a preparator helped in designing Re-Tool 21′s curriculum, Williams said.
    Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • But as preparators carefully removed excess rock, Wang realized that the animal wasn't a bird at all.
    National Geographic, 8 May 2019
  • Eight preparators were working at that moment at different fossils.
    Michelle Weber, Longreads, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Local preparator Margarito González González, the only Mexican co-author on the paper, cleaned and prepared the fossil.
    Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Tynsky’s horse, with the limestone coating carefully cleaned off by a preparator, quickly attracted a $1 million offer, rumored to be from the Field Museum.
    Richard Conniff, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Claude Booker and Cecil Fergerson, art preparators at the museum, had formed the group in the aftermath of the 1965 Watts rebellion to agitate for diversified programming.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The next day, Hodnett met with Tom Suazo, the museum’s fossil preparator, who showed him several other fossils that paleontologists had found nearby.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The center employs 64 stockkeepers, a media preparator, a kitchen assistant and five dishwashing personnel.
    Star Tribune, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Alison Douglas, an artist, and preparator at the Queensland Museum created an illustration of the prehistoric sea scorpion.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The once hard-to-find venue with terrible climate control and poor access for the disabled will soon be an institution unto itself: galleries, preparator’s studio, education studio, lobby, offices, and an elevator.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019

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