How to Use theoretician in a Sentence

theoretician

noun

• How can a theoretician choose a good model in the absence of data?
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2018
• More power to the brave theoreticians who are willing to attempt it!
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
• At a meeting a few years ago in Los Alamos, Johnson explained his dilemma to a group of theoreticians.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Sep. 2019
• According to the Herald in a 1996 feature, Thomson was the technician and theoretician.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 4 Nov. 2017
• Muslim Brotherhood theoretician Sayyid Qutb drinks a cup of water behind bars in Cairo, 1966.
  — Michael B. Mukasey, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018
• To be fair to mainstream economists, Navarro’s portrayal of them as clueless theoreticians is a straw man.
  — Peter Coy, Bloomberg.com, 2 May 2017
• Baudrillard, for his part, figures only briefly in the novel, as one of Zeke’s many theoretician-fathers, and the passage fittingly concerns the uncanniness of the Polaroid.
  — Michael Friedrich, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2018
• Whatever his faults as a theoretician, Kircher was no armchair scholar.
  — Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2014
• One is that, as theoreticians had predicted, gravitational waves appear to travel at the speed of light.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2017
• These observations became grist for the theoreticians — wonky types who like nothing better than to solve nature’s riddles.
  — Seth Shostak, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2019
• And so is Jeff Goldblum, as everyone’s favorite chaos theoretician.
  — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 17 June 2018
• And some of the most exciting ideas that theoreticians are coming up with have steadfastly refused to submit to any form of experimental testing.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 May 2018
• Once there’s an abundance of data, the theoreticians can usually cook up the correct explanation pretty quickly.
  — Seth Shostak, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Until the early 1970s, few theoreticians fitted such a description—most of them were taking inspiration from the results of experiments.
  — Graham Farmelo, WSJ, 22 June 2018
• Few people know that Einstein was not merely a superb theoretician, but also a physicist skilled in observations and experiments.
  — Amir Aczel, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2014
• Today, a small team of researchers is announcing that its correspondingly small telescope picked up something that theoreticians had only suggested might exist: a signal produced by the very first stars in our Universe.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2018
• Three former central bankers – not academics, not professors, not theoreticians – are saying that central bankers are out of ammunition, and that politicians won’t be able to muster enough fiscal firepower to resuscitate growth.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2019
• As machines make discovery faster, people may come to see theoreticians as extraneous, superfluous, and hopelessly behind the times.
  — Jonathan Zittrain, The New Yorker, 23 July 2019
• And the wee Mazda, whose small, light rotary engine sits mostly behind the front wheels, delivers exactly the 50/50 weight distribution that's lauded for handling balance by vehicledynamics theoreticians.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 12 May 2020
• No one among the theoreticians of totalitarian nationalism creates a doctrine.
  — Stanley G. Payne, Slate Magazine, 21 Feb. 2017
• One political thinker who would have been thoroughly unsurprised about these developments is Hannah Arendt, the great analyst and theoretician of totalitarianism.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 30 June 2021
• In acceding to the Democratic Party’s priorities, leftists risk allowing the Russia issue to become the ideological focus of the Resistance, while left theoreticians toil away, formulating systemic critiques that go unnoticed.
  — Michael Tracey, New Republic, 6 June 2017
• Professor Hopkins, a formidable theoretician, provided the ideas; Dr. Kapany, more technically minded, figured out the practical side.
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 11 Aug 2024