How to Use theorist in a Sentence

theorist

noun
  • Those who came to be known as string theorists marveled at the beauty of the math.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
  • In fact, number theorists use these strange values for most of their work.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024
  • But do the credulity theorists have the right account of what’s going on?
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Those bare feet, said theorists, who noted some cultures bury their dead without shoes.
    — Saleah Blancaflor, PEOPLE.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • An example from a string theorist gives a view of what a fourth dimension could be.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Even so, three-body theorists see a number of ways that the unthinkable might be avoided.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • Death, in the view of many theorists, is a good thing, at least for a society that aspires to be creative.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Number theorists from all over the world pounced on Zhang’s result and tried to improve it.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
  • As with many big events, conspiracy theorists come out for the draft lottery.
    — Benjamin Hoffman and Victor Mather, New York Times, 16 May 2018
  • There’s a path between any two dots — what graph theorists call vertices — and no path is longer than two line segments, or edges.
    — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2023
  • That’s the behavior that theorists had described, at least.
    — ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
  • Right at the start, in the winter of 1998, theorists got to work on shrinking that gap.
    — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Right at the start, in the winter of 1998, theorists got to work on shrinking that gap.
    — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
  • So one of the additional steps that game theorists take is leaning into the idea that chance will be part of the process.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Now a team of theorists has floated a possible answer.
    — Matt Von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Over the last couple of decades, theorists have explored what gives the 3D fabric of space its shape.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 June 2026
  • This is not just the position of French theorists and post-truth relativists.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Over the past century, knot theorists have come up with hundreds of invariants.
    — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Third, Stan Evans was a first-rank thinker and theorist who read deeply in the conservative canon.
    — Lee Edwards, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
  • This is what game theorists call a coördination problem.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Human beings—predictors of eclipses, theorists of cosmic heat death—may no longer be the best guides to the future.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The problem that absorbed them takes a key theme in mathematics and turns it into a concrete tool for group theorists.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Over the past 150 years, many knot theorists have been baffled by the unknotting number.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The conspiracy theorist in me doesn’t know what to make of the accusations.
    — Jenice Armstrong, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • That’s one of the things that's true, is that some people called me a conspiracy [theorist] on the Epstein stuff.
    — ABC News, 16 June 2026
  • The theorists and the warriors vanished forever, save one—Arty.
    — Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 21 June 2018
  • The theorists predict that the beginning of the end will be in about 10 billion years — less than the present age of the universe.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 24 July 2025
  • But searches for these dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Either way, white theorists placed white people at the apex of human development.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Waves produced by merging pairs of black holes, in particular, are a feast for data-hungry theorists.
    — K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2026

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