as in investigator
one who observes or studies by close examination and systematic inquiry
medical researchers reported some eye-opening findings on the effectiveness of statins in the reduction of LDL in the bloodstream
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114 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɹɪsˈɜːt͡ʃə], [ ɹɪsˈɜːtʃə], [ ɹ_ɪ_s_ˈɜː_tʃ_ə]
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- school days,
- ask,
- scholarship,
- revision,
- research,
- probation,
- questioner,
- school,
- investigate,
- specialization,
- case study.
• examiner (noun)
- quizmaster,
- appraisers,
- checkers,
- scrutinizer,
- interrogator,
- assayers,
- appraiser,
- checker,
- scrutinizers,
- quizzer,
- quizzers,
- assayer,
- proctor.
• inquisitor (noun)
- askers,
- asker.
• investigator (noun)
- detective,
- inspector,
- gumshoe,
- auditor,
- polices,
- hound,
- private detective,
- private eye,
- spy,
- testers,
- prosecutor,
- Sherlock Holmes,
- prosecutors,
- plainclothes officer,
- examiner,
- agent,
- researcher,
- sleuth,
- undercover cop,
- reviewer,
- tester,
- police,
- snooper,
- attorney,
- Researchers.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- finder of fact,
- research worker,
- man of science,
- researchist,
- fact finder,
- scientist,
- investigator.
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Other synonyms:
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- Research and Development,
- querier,
- inquisitor,
- prober,
- work study,
- quester,
- inquirer.
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- school day.
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- study.
• Other relevant words:
- sabbatical,
- think tank,
- forensic anthropologist.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- tec,
- fieldworker,
- experimenter,
- Studier,
- sifter,
- police detective,
- teacher,
- digger,
- student,
- explorer,
- academic,
- ransacker,
- member,
- clinician,
- Questor,
- boffin,
- Referrer,
- beneficiary,
- prospector,
- Delver,
- searcher,
- test pilot,
- surveyor,
- seeker,
- looker,
- research assistant,
- canvasser,
- research fellow,
- assistant professor,
- scanner,
- tryer-out,
- trialist,
- perquisitor,
- analyzer,
- Rummager,
- scholar,
- essayer,
- laborer,
- analyst,
- Balloter,
- Zetetic,
- test driver,
- hunter,
- Consulter.
How to use «Researcher» in context?
The term «researcher» has a variety of meanings, but in general it refers to someone who is engaged in systematic inquiry and study.
Paraphrases for Researcher:
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Proper noun, singular
investigator, Investigators.
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Noun, singular or mass
investigator.
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Proper noun, singular
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Forward Entailment
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Proper noun, singular
search, searches.
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Noun, singular or mass
search, searcher.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
seeks.
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Noun, singular or mass
author, Capita.
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Proper noun, singular
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Other Related
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Proper noun, singular
research, scholar, scientist, scholars, researches, scientists.
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Noun, singular or mass
analyst, research, scholar, scientist, researches.
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Proper noun, singular
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Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: navorser
- Amharic: researcher
- Arabic: الباحث
- Azerbaijani: tədqiqatçı
- Bashkir: тикшеренеүселәр
- Belarusian: даследчык
- Bulgarian: изследовател
- Bengali: গবেষক
- Bosnian: istraživač
- Catalan: investigador
- Cebuano: researcher
- Czech: výzkumník
- Welsh: ymchwilydd
- Danish: forsker
- German: Forscher
- Greek: ερευνητής
- Esperanto: esploristo
- Spanish: investigador
- Estonian: teadlane
- Basque: ikertzailea
- Persian: پژوهشگر
- Finnish: tutkija
- French: chercheur
- Irish: taighdeoir
- Scottish Gaelic: neach-rannsachaidh
- Galician: investigador
- Gujarati: સંશોધક
- Hebrew: חוקר
- Hindi: शोधकर्ता
- Croatian: istraživač
- Haitian: chèchè
- Hungarian: kutató
- Armenian: հետազոտող
- Indonesian: peneliti
- Icelandic: rannsóknir
- Italian: ricercatore
- Japanese: 研究員
- Javanese: peneliti
- Georgian: მკვლევარი
- Kazakh: зерттеуші
- Khmer: ស្រាវជ្រាវ
- Kannada: ಸಂಶೋಧಕ
- Korean: 연구원
- Kyrgyz: изилдөөчү
- Latin: inquisitorem
- Luxembourgish: Fuerscher
- Lao: ຄວ້າ
- Lithuanian: tyrėjas
- Latvian: pētnieks
- Malagasy: mpikaroka
- Mari: шымлызе
- Maori: kairangahau
- Macedonian: истражувач
- Malayalam: ഗവേഷക
- Mongolian: судлаач
- Marathi: संशोधक
- Hill Mari: шӹмлӹзӹ
- Malay: penyelidik
- Maltese: riċerkatur
- Burmese: သုတေသီ
- Nepali: शोधकर्ता
- Dutch: onderzoeker
- Norwegian: forsker
- Punjabi: ਖੋਜਕਾਰ
- Papiamento: investigando
- Polish: badacz
- Portuguese: pesquisador
- Romanian: cercetător
- Russian: исследователь
- Sinhalese: පර්යේෂක
- Slovak: pracovník
- Slovenian: raziskovalec
- Albanian: studiues
- Serbian: истраживач
- Sundanese: panalungtik
- Swedish: forskare
- Swahili: mtafiti
- Tamil: ஆராய்ச்சியாளர்
- Telugu: పరిశోధకుడు
- Tajik: explorer
- Thai: นักวิจัย
- Tagalog: tagapagpananaliksik
- Turkish: araştırmacı
- Tatar: тикшеренүче
- Udmurt: исследователь
- Ukrainian: дослідник
- Urdu: محقق
- Uzbek: tadqiqotchi
- Vietnamese: nhà nghiên cứu
- Xhosa: wafumana
- Yiddish: פאָרשער
- Chinese: 研究员
Synonyms, close and similar words for researcher
- scientist
- discoverer
- investigator
- surveyor
- scholar
- science officer
- contributor
- experimenter
- scientific associate
- research fellow
- research worker
- scientific officer
- research scientist
- research engineer
- scientific
- scholarly
- academic
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How to use researcher in a sentence?
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Professor Jonas Buchli:
The construction site for us, as a robotics researcher, is an interesting environment because it somewhere in between the completely planned and controlled environment of a factory or a lab floor, and the completely chaotic environment of outdoors, so it’s kind of a semi-structured environment where we can test and develop the technology that is required for robots to move around and do useful things in such environments.
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Mike Pompeo:
Our concern is with the malign actions of the Chinese Communist Party and specific individuals, not with the Chinese people, the graduate students and researchers who are targeted, co-opted, and exploited by the PRC government for its military gain represent a small subset of Chinese student and researcher visa applicants coming to the United States.
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Christopher Krebs:
We are the advocate within the government for the researcher community, the private sector, kind of team internet, there are still clearly… some that still have reluctance to engage with the government.
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Van Horn:
As a nutrition researcher who served on both the 2010 and 2020 US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committees, I can confirm that intake of dietary sugar in the US is more than twice the recommended amount( less than 10 % of total daily caloric intake) and while the direct impact of sugar itself offers minimal, if any, nutritional benefits, it further replaces foods that do.
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Mark Dallas:
The startling numbers of people born this year that will be affected by dementia (put) it on a par with other life-changing diseases, however for every one dementia researcher there are five researching cancer. We must invest in innovative research to redress the balance.
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