How to Use pathologist in a Sentence

pathologist

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  • The pathologist did not rule on a cause of death, and the report could take five or six weeks to publish, Barnett said.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Another pathologist held up the foot; like a ray of light through a keyhole, the shrapnel had passed all the way through.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Our cousin is a speech pathologist and is familiar with signs of autism.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Don was a pathologist who worked for hospitals in the region and pitched in at the wildlife clinic.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Michelle Wintering is a speech pathologist whose husband is in the Army.
    — Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 15 May 2023
  • These samples will be sent to a lab and be analyzed by a pathologist.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Ford said Stein encouraged him to smell the pills, but the detective refused and pushed away the pathologist’s hand.
    — Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The first shot struck him in the heart and was determined to be the fatal blow by Dr. Jeffrey Reynolds, the pathologist who performed the autopsy.
    — Fox News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The pathologist found the cause of death was sudden cardiac arrest due to heart disease and the effects of methamphetamine abuse.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Her body would lie there for more than 24 hours, until the state pathologist could meander down from Dublin.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
  • But the pathologist was willing to attribute the broken jaw only to a hard impact.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • O’Brien made the jewelry part-time, alongside her day job as a speech pathologist.
    — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 27 June 2021
  • Those final two shots were at a downward angle, the pathologist said.
    — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Forensic pathologist Vitaliy Levchenko picked his way through them, hands resting in the pockets of his white lab coat.
    — James Marson, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The bird will be inspected by an avian pathologist to determine the origin of the injury.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Eight climbers died in a blizzard; among the survivors was a Dallas pathologist, Beck Weathers.
    — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 9 July 2021
  • As Andy learns, Laura Oliver, the protective speech pathologist who raised her, has a lot to hide.
    — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Faces of Death followed a pathologist's journey to explore gruesome ways to die through footage captured from around the world.
    — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Switzer said a pathologist will determine whether the fatal shot came from close range or a distance.
    — Leah Willingham, Star Tribune, 10 May 2021
  • The outlet added that two pathologists now believe the child was likely stillborn.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
  • That hideaway lies below the city morgue where mother Olena now works as a pathologist.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Prosecutors also called back to the stand the pathologist who did the autopsies on the victims and their expert who studied the crime scene.
    — CBS News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Brent Oblinger, a plant pathologist on the Deschutes National Forest, while in the process of conducting a portion of the survey.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Her lawyer, Malik Shabazz, said the conclusions of the independent pathologists could change the outcome of Ms. Lee’s case.
    — Brian Howey, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Kenya’s state pathologist says many of the remains found show signs of extreme starvation, some were smothered, and a few showed blunt force trauma.
    — David McKenzie, CNN, 19 June 2023
  • Still, 15 months ticked by before the local prosecutor was notified by the pathologist on the case, Dr. J. Brent Davis, that the death was a homicide.
    — New York Times, 20 June 2022
  • In 2018, pathologist Dr. Martin Wirenfeldt Nielsen got a call.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
  • There the veterinary pathologist would dissect and test to figure out why the creatures were dying.
    — Jim Waymer, USA TODAY, 8 May 2021
  • Only five other cases of deer contracting plague have been recorded by disease pathologists in the U.S., including in Wyoming and Oregon.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 25 Sep. 2024
  • His credits include Rosewood, in which the civilian consultant was a private pathologist.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2024

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