as in pharmacist
a person who prepares drugs according to a doctor's prescription
let's ask the chemist whether it's safe to take these two drugs together
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Recent Examples of chemist
Linus Pauling was one of the world’s greatest chemists.
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Big Think, 28 Jan. 2026
Carbon-fluorine bonds are usually known by chemists to be non-reactive.
—Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
Many companies do actually employ professionals—cosmetic chemists, food scientists.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
Cocoa butter is made of fat molecules that can arrange themselves in six different crystal shapes (which chemists call ‘polymorphs’).
—Clarissa Brincat, Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2026
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Big Think, 28 Jan. 2026
Carbon-fluorine bonds are usually known by chemists to be non-reactive.
—Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
Many companies do actually employ professionals—cosmetic chemists, food scientists.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
Cocoa butter is made of fat molecules that can arrange themselves in six different crystal shapes (which chemists call ‘polymorphs’).
—Clarissa Brincat, Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for chemist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chemist
pharmacist
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The service The team is impeccable and comprised of some true experts, including Gregory Unrein, a pharmacist and herbalist, who has his own herbal shop a few steps from the hotel.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 Feb. 2026
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Each code takes a doctor, a respiratory therapist, a pharmacist, and at least four or five nurses.—
Diana Torres,
New York Daily News,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Chemist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chemist. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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