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scientist

[sahy-uhn-tist] / ˈsaɪ ən tɪst /


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Voters are willing to overlook scandal more readily than in the past, said Brandon Rottinghaus, a political scientist at the University of Houston.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

That makes sense, given that the stock market largely values companies by future potential, says Kelly Tang, Bendable’s chief data scientist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Fifteen years later, the phenomenon caught the curiosity of a scientist from the statistical and biological physics group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

A team led by Los Alamos scientist Roxana Bujack used geometry to build a mathematical definition of color perception based on hue, saturation, and lightness.

From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026

Not like a medical doctor, but an astrophysicist—a scientist who studies the planets, stars, and other objects in space and how they work.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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