rocket scientist

noun

1. a specialist in rocketry.

2. an exemplar of keen intelligence, especially mathematical ability.

Example Sentences

In achieving his dream to be a rocket scientist, he would become an American hero.

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Let’s be frank: None of these characters, past or present, would have grown up to be rocket scientists.

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You didn't have to be a rocket scientist or a political scientist to know that Joe Biden was incapable of running an effective campaign for reelection.

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He acknowledged it didn’t take a rocket scientist or whatever it is they do at MIT to come up with the design.

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Despite her own background as a physicist, Ms Seward thinks people are put off this sector by a perception that it's exclusively for rocket scientists.

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