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theorist

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as in philosopher

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Recent Examples of theorist Its advisory board includes OG cryptographer Bruce Schneier and tech theorist Clay Shirky—neither of whom has a track record of attaching their name to fly-by-night projects. — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026 Each chandelier is masked with multiple layers of cooling cylinders that cool the system down to -273 degrees Celsius, or nearly -460 Fahrenheit, according to principal quantum hardware theorist Edward Chen. — Pera Onal, Baltimore Sun, 23 Sep. 2026 Acevedo himself functions as both the book’s moral authority and its political theorist. — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 Campt is a feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art and an art history professor at Princeton University. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 17 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for theorist

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Only one copy will ever legally exist, in a protest against the loss of music’s aura in the age of its digital reproducibility, to paraphrase German philosopher Walter Benjamin.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
The justice of going to war—what philosophers call jus ad bellum—is separate from jus in bello, the justice of how a war is fought.

— Jordi Graupera, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026

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The plan was shaped by survivors themselves, and voices from women, law enforcement, healthcare providers, practitioners and advocates across the nation.

— Michele Decker, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2026
The practitioners who understand that rewiring early will be the ones running these teams in three years.

— Abhishek Yadav, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026

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