How to Use experimentalist in a Sentence

experimentalist

noun
  • But for now, experimentalists are still the ones leading the way.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2025
  • This is the kind of fun challenge that inspires experimentalists.
    — Douglas Natelson, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
  • What sets her apart is her fearless experimentalist approach.
    — Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
  • So far, both the experimentalists and the theorists have found the exchange fruitful.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The structures were missing key details that the experimentalists learned about their proteins.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2024
  • For the real experimentalists, Bless does well, and not just the apparel, but the objects.
    — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Chad Orzel does a great job of explaining why an experimentalist should be skeptical of this result.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2010
  • The group, who also have backgrounds in areas such as physics and math, approached the problem like experimentalists and decided to gather a dataset.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
  • But Kondo, as a theorist and not an experimentalist, was not the first to show that his supposition was correct.
    — Kenneth Chang, Star Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Leave it to sartorial experimentalist Kelsey Lu to pull off the heelless heel.
    — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2018
  • Detroit experimentalist and texture king Jimmy Edgar is the kind of producer that opens a doorway in your mind.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2021
  • The training and the culture of a plasma physics experimentalist is very different from that of a planetary scientist.
    — Adam Frank, Scientific American, 21 July 2021
  • For a theorist, an observer or an experimentalist, dark matter is a promising target for research.
    — Lisa Randall, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
  • At 23 years old, Miller had scant experience as an experimentalist.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2016
  • Fermi was mainly known for being both a theorist and an experimentalist — a rare combination.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 22 Aug. 2022
  • An earlier team of experimentalists had a high margin of error, so their results were not sufficiently reliable.
    — Michelle Frank, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Per usual, the lineup is packed with an overwhelming array of great artists, including some of jazz’s biggest and buzziest names alongside upstart experimentalists.
    — Natalie Weiner, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2018
  • There have been several experimentalists that claim to have observed the supersolid state, but none of the experiments have been clear enough to make the claim unequivocal.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2018
  • The foundation, which would wind up spending $1 billion over the next 40 years on the project, ordered the two groups to merge, with a troika of two experimentalists, Drs.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
  • That’s also where Schoenberg happened to have taught students who went on to become Hollywood film composers, experimentalists or both.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Even when experimentalists thought the COFs were bone-dry, tiny amounts of water lingered within the material’s pores.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Their papers used an abstract mathematical framework foreign to the experimentalists who were.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
  • My grandmother, at 44, had earned a reputation as a tough and meticulous experimentalist.
    — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The Italian experimentalist goes absolutely haywire on a very overwhelming, very fun half-hour of ecstatic avant metal.
    — Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 30 Mar. 2026
  • One is, experimentalists have recently started being able to investigate this Landauer limit on the work required for erasure.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Much to the frustration of impatient experimentalists, however, the mini-brains’ similarity to the real thing only went so far.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Sometimes early 20th-century experimentalists couldn't be sure the particles were even tangible objects at all.
    — Michelle Frank, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
  • At meetings and workshops, theorists and experimentalists are working closely to coordinate the various proposals and plans for testing them.
    — Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2013
  • The prospect of finding an unknown work of literature in the stash captivated much of Europe, and experimentalists tried various approaches to reading the papyri.
    — Tomas Weber, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Though best known for his work on the alto and soprano saxophone, Benjamin was a versatile multi-instrumentalist and daring experimentalist.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024

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