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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

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

Cicero was the great eminence of the Roman age—a lawyer, a politician, and so not only Rome’s greatest theorist of rhetoric but its greatest practitioner.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

The collaboration brought together the experimental group of Caltech's Manuel Endres, professor of physics, Alicea's theory group, and theorists at Université Paris-Saclay and the Technical University of Munich.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Although the breadth of Ms. Rubel’s reading is impressive, readers might rather hear what the author has to say than a range of academic theorists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

The belief, which air theorists had propagated since the onset of combat planes in World War I, seemed confirmed by the results of World War II. However, the U.S.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

Only one copy of his manuscript survives, and later Jesuit theorists rediscovered his work only because they needed ammunition to use against William Gilbert.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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