Used in a Sentence

paleontologist

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for paleontologist.

Editorial note

A lot of credentialism, one paleontologist vs multiple actual MDs, lots of focus on minor meaningless details.

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Quick take

One who studies paleontology.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

One who studies paleontology.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for paleontologist.

Example sentences

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A lot of credentialism, one paleontologist vs multiple actual MDs, lots of focus on minor meaningless details.

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It's sort of like the difference between an evolutionary biologist experimenting on fruit flies, and a paleontologist.

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Claude's response: > Brachiosaurus brancai was reassigned to the new genus Giraffatitan by paleontologist Gregory S.

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It always seems to me that these paleontologist still use medieval technology.

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Of the top of my head I can think of Flint Dibble who is an paleontologist?

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The species was reassigned to its own genus—Giraffatitan—by paleontologist Gregory S.

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For me (as a non-paleontologist) my simplifying assumption about evolution is that anagenetic change doesn't occur, but again this is still an area of active research.

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My father was a paleontologist, albeit 30 years ago.

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Paul Sereno - he's a paleontologist at the Univ.

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Also, he really wanted to bone the female paleontologist.

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University of Maryland vertebrate paleontologist Thomas Holtz, Jr.

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He is merely an aspiring paleontologist.

Quote examples

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According to an interesting book of a Russian paleontologist Kirill Eskov [1] there were a lot of "evolutionary tries" to create a multicellular life.

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"Mismeasure of Man" was propaganda written by a Communist paleontologist who knew next to nothing of psychometrics.

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A paleontologist does not argue with the fact god could have created the world ten seconds ago, rather he argues "excluding unknowable things" this is the patterns I see.

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"Strangely, baseball legend and noted non-paleontologist Jose Canseco recently tweeted that Earth may have had a low gravity in the old days, and that could explain the big animals our planet used to boast." WTF?

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use paleontologist in a sentence?

A lot of credentialism, one paleontologist vs multiple actual MDs, lots of focus on minor meaningless details.

What does paleontologist mean?

One who studies paleontology.

What part of speech is paleontologist?

paleontologist is commonly used as noun.