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theorist

[thee-er-ist, theer-] / ˈθi ər ɪst, ˈθɪər- /
NOUN
philosopher
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As the German political theorist Werner Sombart wrote in 1906, in America “all socialist utopias came to nothing on roast beef and apple pie.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

I suggested he sounded like a conspiracy theorist, implying the whole world was out to get him.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

They include four US House hopefuls and six candidates for governor, among them conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell in Minnesota.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

The influencer said when people find out that she listens to Owens, they often mock her and call her a conspiracy theorist.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

The lengthy rest breaks were well distributed throughout the shift, arranged according to a labor theorist often quoted by the foremen and managers.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

These believers had, like so many conspiracy theorists before them, started from a place of legitimate suspicion of powerful institutions.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

With the measurements now established at these levels of significance, theorists can begin developing new predictions about what the structures might represent and what additional experiments could distinguish among the possibilities.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

The use of Q phrases by government agencies during wartime has excited online conspiracy theorists.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Still not sure what that means,” Sumner wrote on social media, “but some analytic number theorists seem excited.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

In this they are quite unlike testimonies, which degrade as they pass from ear to ear in an endless game of Chinese whispers; eighteenth-century probability theorists actually devised formulae for calculating this rate of degradation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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