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bacteriologist

American  
[bak-teer-ee-ah-luhj-ist] / bækˌtɪər iˈɑ lədʒ ɪst /

noun

  1. a specialist or student in bacteriology.


Example Sentences

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She also worked as a bacteriologist; wrote a newspaper column; owned coffee shops; baked vegan cookies; and ran a 50-seat theater in the basement of her Harlem brownstone.

From New York Times

No bacteriologist had ever encountered what Stolp was now seeing: a dedicated, active and refined killer.

From Scientific American

“It’s kind of like trying to make pandas reproduce in the zoo,” says bacteriologist Trina McMahon of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who was not involved in the new study.

From Scientific American

Few sipping mezcal and ume plum liquor in a cocktail called “penicillin” were aware that the bacteriologist was there, lying in repose in section 13, lot 9314.

From New York Times

My dad, Andres Villarosa, was working as a bacteriologist at the same hospital and gave my mother a ride to work one day.

From New York Times