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theorist

CEFR B2

someone who theorizes (especially in science or art)

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Six example sentences with theorist, each labelled with its topic.

  • The theorist built a model of bank runs on two pages, and thirty years of data later supported it.

    Economics

  • A theorist can explain why that chord unsettles you, tracing the tension to a note the ear expects resolved.

    Music

  • Every theorist in the seminar had a tidy account of free will, none of which survived the first counterexample.

    Philosophy

  • A string theorist can spend an entire career on equations that no experiment has yet been able to check.

    Science

  • Hobbes was a political theorist who wrote during a civil war, which explains his hunger for a strong sovereign.

    Politics

  • The attachment theorist proposed that a toddler's bond with a caregiver shapes every close relationship that follows.

    Psychology

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