Example Sentences

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Michael Vermeer, a physical scientist at Rand Corporation, said that we have not yet figured out how to align models to human values, yet we are “deploying them as highly capable agents.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 11, 2026

Study co-authors are Lauren T. Toth, Ph.D., a research physical scientist with the U.S.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2024

“That to me is a really huge jump from one record to the next,” said Ellen Bartow-Gillies, a physical scientist with NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2023

“What’s happening upshore may have an impact downshore,” said Brandon Krumwiede, a physical scientist in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s coastal management office.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2021

The physical scientist can make an hypothesis, test it, revise the hypothesis hundreds of times, and, if after all that, he is wrong, no one else has to pay the price.

From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter