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scientist

[sahy-uhn-tist] / ˈsaɪ ən tɪst /


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“There’s a lot of unknowns,” said Sasha Travaglio, a spokesperson for the Santa Rosa Island fire Burned Area Emergency Response team, which includes a hydrologist, a soil scientist, an archaeologist, a paleontologist and a botanist.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

"What has happened is quite unprecedented," says Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya, a political scientist.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 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

But "the temptation to declare vacancy will always be there," political scientist Fernando Tuesta told AFP.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

For a moment, I felt like a scientist, gathering little bits of research about myself and trying to analyze it.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller




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