Thesaurus results for PHARMACIST

pharmacist

noun

ˈfär-mə-sist

Definition of pharmacist

as in chemist

a person who prepares drugs according to a doctor's prescription the pharmacist caught an error in the prescription's dosage

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Recent Examples of pharmacist Harshbarger, a Republican who led the legislative push, is a pharmacist in a small city in northeastern Tennessee. — Blake Farmer, NPR, 5 Oct. 2026 Series centers on Laura, a small-town pharmacist and mother who runs a support group for abuse victims. — Carole Horst, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026 Also in Idaho, a primary care physician and his pharmacist wife made the opposite calculation. — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026 Braun, a retired pharmacist, included a chapter regarding the Idaho cold case. — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pharmacist

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chemist

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In addition to developing better medicines or perfumes, deciphering the mirror images of molecules can help scientists understand the chemical architecture of life, said chemist Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the journal Science.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026
That year, the winner was Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff for his work uncovering how chemicals interact with each other in solutions.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026

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