theorist

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A U.S. naval officer, historian, and military theorist, Mahan argued that control of the seas was the key to empires from Rome to Britain.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Australian police have arrested two men in connection with Dezi Freeman, the conspiracy theorist gunman who was shot dead by police after a seven-month manhunt in March.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

But it seems to think I’m a conspiracy theorist who is also interested in whatever the media drama of the day is.

From Slate • May 7, 2026

“CNN seeks to be a stethoscope attached to the hypothetical heart of the war, and to present us with its hypothetical pulse,” the French theorist Jean Baudrillard wrote, critiquing the conflict as a media spectacle.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Starting the year after Lawrence met him, his renown as a theorist would land him appointments first at the University of Chicago and then at Yale University’s Sloane Physics Laboratory as director.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik