modern theorist

collocation in English

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modern
adjective
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/ˈmɒd.ən/us
/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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theorist
noun[C]
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/ˈθɪə.rɪst/us
/ˈθiː.ɚ.ɪst/
someone who develops ideas about the explanation ...
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(Definition ofmodernandtheoristfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In short, in attempting to explain authority, modern theorists end up explaining authority away.
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Modern theorists - who have attempted to use "style" in the history and philosophy of science - have borrowed the term from textbooks on art history.
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Performers, or so modern theorists suggest, are constructs - sometimes created by the context of performers' work, sometimes by their own created 'persona', and sometimes by their audience.
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Modern theorists, however, tend to see this as an unsatisfactory generalisation.
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Many modern theorists have stated that this ideal can not be achieved without analysing additional factors.
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However, modern theorists of grammar prefer to distinguish determiners as a separate word class from adjectives, which are simple modifiers of nouns, expressing attributes of the thing referred to.
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Modern theorists now propose the beasts were some type of domestic dog or a wolf-dog hybrid on account of their large size and unusual colouration.
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As a field of environmental anthropology, ethnoecology has derived much of its characteristics from classic theorists and more modern theorists of that time.
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He does not discuss universal suffrage, which is vital to modern democracy and quite important to some modern theorists; his commentators dispute whether it is implied by his language.
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Most modern theorists agree that both are important, with aggregate behavior being primarily determined by traits and situational factors being the primary predictor of behavior in the short term. 5.
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Modern theorists sometimes express this idea by postulating the existence of a unique one-dimensional "hotness manifold", into which every proper temperature scale has a monotonic mapping.
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