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scientists

  • plural
    of scientist.
    scientist
    noun
    an expert in science, especially one of the physical or natural sciences.

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National Park Service scientists began studying carnivores in and around the Santa Monica Mountains in 1996.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

The scientists therefore increased the amount of trisulfide used relative to HGF.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

This unusual arrangement is one of the most intriguing features of the nervous system, and scientists have proposed a new explanation that reaches back hundreds of millions of years.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Instead of treating bending molecular connections as a problem to eliminate, scientists may now be able to use that flexibility to unlock arrangements that rigid designs could not easily achieve.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

She had reported on Mount St. Helens for long enough to have listened to the scientists, to have witnessed the bulge growing and the mountain shaking and erupting.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone