How to Use scientist in a Sentence

scientist

noun
  • All scientists need to do now, then, is find it.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Turns out scientists have a plan.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 15 June 2026
  • This result marks a shift in how scientists study the sun.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Each of these scientists is attached to their own idea.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 2026
  • But some scientists had doubts.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 5 Oct. 2025
  • That much, scientists have known.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Some who were once lawyers or doctors or scientists.
    — Molly Aitken, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • But scientists learned thrips don’t do well without their food source.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
  • In the new study, the scientists focused on physics.
    — New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Here’s what scientists know so far about the effects of cannabis on the teenage brain.
    — Sara Novak, Scientific American, 18 May 2026
  • Many scientists have long been sounding the alarm.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The scientists track the mice through the rest of their life spans, which can be more than 2 years.
    — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 11 Sep. 2024
  • But scientists fear this pattern no longer holds.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • So, too, do many academics, scientists, and even lawyers.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Scientists are trying to find out why.
    — Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
  • What’s most exciting is what scientists may be able to do with it.
    — Amber Dance, Quanta Magazine, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The spread of bird flu in dairy cattle took scientists by surprise.
    — Will Stone, NPR, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Scientists have known such cells exist but struggled to find them on scans.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 2 May 2026
  • Scientists no longer with the agency talk about the work left undone.
    — Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
  • All these years later, the man — now a scientist — was writing to thank her.
    — Naomi Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Don’t let the astronomer or scientist in your life get stuck working late nights in the dark.
    — Kylee McGuigan, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2022
  • But beyond that, scientists still don't know too much about dark matter.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Had the deer still been alive, the scientists would have intervened.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • So, scientists have wondered, how does the brain adapt to this kind of lifestyle?
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Although much more research needs to be done, scientists have some ideas.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026
  • In 2002, scientists got a live view of how that process may play out.
    — Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Scientists fear that will impact things like heat waves, that maybe heat waves could be even more intense.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • Plotting kind of my most fiendish, happy, mad scientist state.
    — Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
  • Two is meeting a lot of young, budding scientists.
    — Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 16 June 2026
  • Even the snow sports attract scientists and snow experts.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 15 Feb. 2026

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