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chemists

noun

plural of chemist, British

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a person who prepares drugs according to a doctor's prescription let's ask the chemist whether it's safe to take these two drugs together

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Recent Examples of chemists The system engineers fed that requirement back to the chemists. — Dr. Samer Taha, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026 But a team of MIT chemists has figured out how to make plastics vastly stronger by engineering them to break. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026 The team’s chemists would isolate compounds from the juice, and then Sikiric would test those compounds using animal experiments. — Sara Talpos — Undark, STAT, 1 June 2026 Essayli said chemists and scientists from the EPA have been brought from across the country to collect evidence as part of the probe, including taking soil samples. — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 10 June 2026 Mark Mitchnick, a pediatrician who invented transparent zinc oxide, which is known under the brand Z-Cote, said bemotrizinol will give chemists a new tool to make sunscreens that people will want to wear. — Michael Scaturro, Miami Herald, 15 June 2026 Mark Mitchnick, a pediatrician who invented transparent zinc oxide, which is known under the brand Z-Cote, said bemotrizinol will give chemists a new tool to make sunscreens that people will want to wear. — Kff Health News, Oc Register, 10 June 2026 Yu is a pioneer in studying carbon-hydrogen activation whose work has transformed how chemists build and modify complex molecules, with implications for drug discovery and medical research. — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026 Depositphotos In a new MIT study – in partnership with Purdue, Northwestern, and Duke universities – chemists have discovered that inserting weaker bonds into polystyrene actually makes the material more resistant to damage. — Shirl Leigh june 10, New Atlas, 10 June 2026

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pharmacists

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Walmart has 15,000 pharmacists, roughly half of whom have been with the company for more than a decade, Host said.

— Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 1 July 2026
Legislators in at least a dozen states passed laws this year to limit compensation to the companies, set minimum payments from the companies to pharmacists and require the companies to disclose more information to their clients, states and the public.

— John Hanna, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026

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