How to Use theorist in a Sentence

theorist

noun

• Right at the start, in the winter of 1998, theorists got to work on shrinking that gap.
  — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
• Right at the start, in the winter of 1998, theorists got to work on shrinking that gap.
  — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
• In 1964, British theorist John Bell proposed a test of that idea.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 4 Oct. 2022
• But do the credulity theorists have the right account of what’s going on?
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• Third, Stan Evans was a first-rank thinker and theorist who read deeply in the conservative canon.
  — Lee Edwards, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• Number theorists from all over the world pounced on Zhang’s result and tried to improve it.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
• In fact, number theorists use these strange values for most of their work.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024
• To be sure, there are enough of these sorts of brutish battles going on in nature to make war-of-all-against-all theorist Thomas Hobbes smirk.
  — Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2022
• Even so, three-body theorists see a number of ways that the unthinkable might be avoided.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• An example from a string theorist gives a view of what a fourth dimension could be.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2023
• There’s a path between any two dots — what graph theorists call vertices — and no path is longer than two line segments, or edges.
  — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2023
• This is not just the position of French theorists and post-truth relativists.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• For number theorists, 2012 was like a roller-coaster ride.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 28 July 2023
• The core of the collection is a gift from Olsen’s mentor of many years, brand expert and cultural theorist Steven Mark Klein, who died last year.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2022
• The figures of the mermaid, the nymph, and the water queen all connote a kind of eroticized, passive to-be-looked-at-ness, to borrow the film theorist Laura Mulvey’s term.
  — Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 21 June 2024
• Here’s my interpretation of Saito, the theorist, in practice: Live in a small apartment rather than a big, drafty house.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
• He was hailed in the leftist press as the leading theorist of the new millennium, the first person to describe the emergence of a new form of society.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• This was all in preparation for an episode about infinity with the set theorist Justin Moore.
  — Polly Stryker, Quanta Magazine, 9 Feb. 2023
• China has in recent years witnessed a surge of interest in the work of the German legal theorist Carl Schmitt.
  — Chang Che, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2020
• That said, one possible avenue for moving up the food chain is the case of Owen Shroyer, the right-hand man of the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
  — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2022
• Ten of the families have sued the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who insists the shooting was staged.
  — Bryan Anselm/redux For Cnn, CNN, 14 Dec. 2021
• The film deals with this a lot, the idea that these academics, these theorists could come together and build something with their own hands of this magnitude, of this importance.
  — WIRED, 20 June 2023
• Alex Jones, the extreme far-right talk-show host and conspiracy theorist, joined the social network.
  — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
• Alexander marched to the Capitol from the rally with Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist and Infowars host.
  — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• Should inflation rage out of control, the MMT theorists say, Congress will raise taxes.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
• The theorist Wendy Brown once observed that at the end of the twentieth century liberals and Marxists alike had begun to lose faith in the future.
  — Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• And after a billion-plus dollars in judgements, there's still no end in sight for the conspiracy theorist.
  — Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
• They were joined the next day by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, solidifying the event as an icon of the 2020 elections.
  — USA Today, 3 Dec. 2020
• One of number theorists’ most potent tools for studying this interplay is to encode numbers into a type of equation called an elliptic curve.
  — Erica Klarreich, quantamagazine.org, 14 Oct. 2024
• The processes of star formation and the assemblage of galaxies were faster, more efficient or just different from what theorists had assumed.
  — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 12 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024