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geologist

[jee-ol-uh-jist] / dʒiˈɒl ə dʒɪst /


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Grace, 67, a retired geologist, has lived on the edge of Abercarn for more than 20 years, where housing gives way to open moorland.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

The search began in 2019 in the Sahara Desert, where French geologist Hugues Faure had said he found a tooth belonging to the giant predator Carcharodontosaurus in the 1950s.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

In it, a French geologist mentioned a single sabre shaped fossil tooth resembling those of the massive predator Carcharodontosaurus, originally found in Egypt's Western Desert in the early 1900s.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

Being a geologist, I can hear its story in my cognitive mind—of ancient mountain-building, recrystallization, eons of erosion, glacial polish and grave-digging.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

It can all get terribly confusing to nonspecialists, but to a geologist these can be matters of passion.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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