rocket scientist
Example Sentences
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Korolev, the Soviet Union’s top rocket scientist, watched his creation roll out—a 112-foot-long rocket on its side, strapped to the platform of a flat train car.
From Literature
In achieving his dream to be a rocket scientist, he would become an American hero.
From BBC
Let’s be frank: None of these characters, past or present, would have grown up to be rocket scientists.
From Los Angeles Times
He acknowledged it didn’t take a rocket scientist or whatever it is they do at MIT to come up with the design.
From Los Angeles Times
Despite her own background as a physicist, Ms Seward thinks people are put off this sector by a perception that it's exclusively for rocket scientists.
From BBC
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