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discoverer

[dih-skuhv-er-er] / dɪˈskʌv ər ər /
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Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker staff writer: I was a late discoverer of Taix, stumbling upon it when I moved to a bungalow just above Sunset during the pandemic from New York.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

The newly identified species has been named Tyrannoroter heberti, which means Hebert's tyrant digger, in recognition of its discoverer, Brian Hebert.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026

Then there is one final problem for the discoverer of a giant new successful drug.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2024

“At the time, the discoverer and collectors did not realize there were prey items preserved inside its stomach,” Zelenitsky says.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 8, 2023

Glenn Seaborg, the discoverer of element 94, was relaxing in his room at the Faculty Club, listening to a football game on the radio.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

It’s no surprise its discoverers earned a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

One of the best known metallocenes is ferrocene, which helped earn its discoverers the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026

Members of her species didn’t take their first upright steps in open savanna grasslands, as her discoverers thought, but walked first in a grassy woodland with deciduous trees.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024

The treatment for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia is the first to be licensed using the gene-editing tool known as Crispr, for which its discoverers were awarded the Nobel prize in 2020.

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2023

Thus Columbus knew he was making a discovery, of a new route if not of a new land; the discoverers of the Azores did not.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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