How to Use philosopher in a Sentence

philosopher

noun
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  • Benet’s Luke Bafia plays baseball the way a philosopher ponders the state of the world.
    — Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2022
  • As a wise philosopher named Huey Lewis once opined, that’s the power of love!
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Asha, the daughter of a philosopher, reflects the hope and ideals of a people.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Like the philosopher Socrates did, strive for a less cluttered life at home and work.
    — John Pierce, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
  • This year marks the 300th anniversary of the great philosopher’s birth.
    — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 7 May 2022
  • The 6-foot-9 Thomas is a heady philosopher who likes to influence the game at the point of attack.
    — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Thomas Hobbes was one of the most clear-eyed and therefore one of the bleakest of social philosophers.
    — John Banville, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
  • This is a moment that philosophers have warned us about for years.
    — Kate Crawford, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Or, in the words of the ancient philosophers, whatever floats your boat.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
  • Socrates, of all the philosophers in the history of mankind, was probably the biggest pain in the ass.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The original coiner of the term was French philosopher Edgar Morin, who introduced the term in the 1990s.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes went about with a lantern in search of an honest man.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Ever the philosopher, Perzynski has no time for the trivial or the soft.
    — Dallas News, 17 June 2021
  • The Supreme Court’s job is to say what the law is, not to be a body of philosopher kings to impose progressive outcomes.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 May 2022
  • Thomas Sowell, the economist and philosopher, made this point to me about ten years ago.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Feb. 2022
  • That great philosopher with a guitar, Elvis, was quoted as saying truth is a lot like the sun.
    — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2021
  • And which actor could measure up to her as the high-minded philosopher Palmer Joss?
    — Vulture, 29 June 2022
  • But O’Keeffe, in the end, wasn’t carrying out a philosopher’s program.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • The philosophers invited the tech billionaires to dance.
    — Leif Wenar, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
  • This all feels like a philosopher king increasing his grip on the U.S. senate.
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The French philosopher has been traveling to and reporting on Ukraine for years.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The philosopher is known to have sailed across the Gulf of Naples on a rescue mission to help those fleeing the devastation.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Listen to this article The great philosopher Yogi Berra would get a kick out of this.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Heather says her goal as a philosopher is to understand time in itself.
    — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The Fairy Godmother is replaced by Alidoro, a philosopher and tutor to the Prince.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The Oxford philosopher Janet Radcliffe Richards notes that this argument, like the one above, proves too much.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The history of mankind, as the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel believed, is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
    — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 3 May 2022
  • Weil held an exacting view of the philosopher’s mandate.
    — Robert Zaretsky, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2022
  • And then there’s the idea, fueled by philosophers and pop culture, that AI bots could one day threaten human life.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The philosopher's idea is not new, as Putin has previously refused to remove the founder of the Soviet Union's body from the burial site in the country's capital.
    — Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025

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