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theorist

[thee-er-ist, theer-] / ˈθi ər ɪst, ˈθɪər- /
NOUN
philosopher
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Digging into the incident, Gibney says, would have meant “playing Elon’s game” — trying “to put the pieces together like a conspiracy theorist would do to make sense of the chaos.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Further outside the industry is Eliezer Yudkowsky, a self-taught theorist who has spent two decades arguing that a sufficiently powerful AI would wipe out humanity.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

They have required reading and a special fondness for theorist Karl Kautsky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

He was kind of a classic old-guy conspiracy theorist.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

What followed was a huge search and rescue mission, which cost Suffolk Police more than £2m, captivated the country and fuelled conspiracy theorists.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

"No matter what the theorists did -- even with the most advanced computer simulation techniques -- they could not reproduce the experiments," said Millot.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

Worse, there were more than a few conspiracy theorists in the bunch.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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