theorist
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Further outside the industry is Eliezer Yudkowsky, a self-taught theorist who has spent two decades arguing that a sufficiently powerful AI would wipe out humanity.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
I suggested he sounded like a conspiracy theorist, implying the whole world was out to get him.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The influencer said when people find out that she listens to Owens, they often mock her and call her a conspiracy theorist.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Stephen Morris, an economic theorist, explained why in a 2001 paper titled “Political Correctness”: An adviser who fears being thought a bigot shades what he says until it carries no information at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
In Germany, however, Taylor’s idea was picked up, and effectively appropriated, by a theorist named Alfred Wegener, a meteorologist at the University of Marburg.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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With the measurements now established at these levels of significance, theorists can begin developing new predictions about what the structures might represent and what additional experiments could distinguish among the possibilities.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
The use of Q phrases by government agencies during wartime has excited online conspiracy theorists.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
“Still not sure what that means,” Sumner wrote on social media, “but some analytic number theorists seem excited.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The belief, which air theorists had propagated since the onset of combat planes in World War I, seemed confirmed by the results of World War II. However, the U.S.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
Some theorists even believe that there can be no universal definition of music because it is so culturally specific.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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