expositor
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Origin of expositor
1300–50; Middle English (< Anglo-French ) < Late Latin expositor exegete ( Latin: one who exposes a child), equivalent to exposi-, variant stem of expōnere ( see expose) + -tor -tor
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In a statement, Thomas F. Rosenbaum, the president of Caltech, called Dr. Stone “a great scientist, a formidable leader and a gifted expositor of discovery.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2024
Plotinus believed that he was simply an expositor of Plato’s work, but the philosophy he developed, known as Neoplatonism, expanded on Plato’s idea.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
As a scholar and a jurist, Scalia was the chief expositor of the judicial philosophy known as originalism.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019
The bearded, gnome-like Krugman, as the most famous expositor of traditional Keynesianism, rose to the occasion.
From BusinessWeek ● Sep. 12, 2013
It may not be a coincidence that Greene, like many scientists since Galileo, is a lucid expositor of difficult ideas, because the ideal of classic prose is congenial to the worldview of the scientist.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
John Mercer of Maryland, likewise, said that he “disapproved of the Doctrine that the Judges as expositors of the Constitution should have the authority to declare a law void.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
The modern market economy has never lacked for its literary expositors.
From Forbes ● Jun. 16, 2014
One of the few biblical expositors respected by Westboro is John Gill, who lived and died in the eighteenth century.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2013
In fact, many painters are lucid expositors and vivid writers, though few are as vivid as Van Gogh.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2010
There is nothing algebraical in this analysis, as distinguished from synthesis, of the Greeks, and of the expositors of pure geometry.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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