as in theorist
a person who expresses a theory in a particular area of experience
a philosopher of freedom
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Advice on life’s trickiest situations and moral dilemmas from the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
The movement is most often associated with the British philosopher Nick Land.
—Ed Simon, TIME, 24 Mar. 2025
After the philosophers, the historians and the political commentators came the novelists.
—Margie Burns, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025
Ontologically speaking, as the philosophers like to say, this place raises very profound questions about what a strip mall is.
—Asher Price, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
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Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
The movement is most often associated with the British philosopher Nick Land.
—Ed Simon, TIME, 24 Mar. 2025
After the philosophers, the historians and the political commentators came the novelists.
—Margie Burns, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025
Ontologically speaking, as the philosophers like to say, this place raises very profound questions about what a strip mall is.
—Asher Price, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for philosopher
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The universe knows what to do and will continue to evolve with time, but its behavior appears to be rich enough that certain aspects of its future may remain forever hidden to the theorists who ponder it.—
Charlie Wood,
Wired News,
6 Apr. 2025
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That makes the empty-pigeonhole principle much more vexing for complexity theorists.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Facilitated by a team that includes faculty members from the PNW’s College of Business, as well as leadership practitioners, the LNI program meets monthly from September 2025 to May 2026.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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Much of black metal has typically maligned Christianity and other institutional religions, and some practitioners took parts in Norwegian church burnings in the 1990s.—
Mikal Gilmore,
Rolling Stone,
30 Mar. 2025
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By using a special secure interpreter to run this Python code, CaMeL can monitor it closely.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
16 Apr. 2025
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The group chatted backstage after their set on Saturday with the help of an interpreter — though not Jake and Jay, who are fluent in English.—
Ryma Chikhoune,
Footwear News,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Philosopher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/philosopher. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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