How to Use psychologist in a Sentence

psychologist

noun
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  • The psychologist, by the end of the book, might offer closure.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
  • In the half-dozen times she’s been to a psychologist since the shooting, she’s refused to open up.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Demand for psychologists increased by more than 60% in the first year of the war.
    — Paul Sonne, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Each school site also has a psychologist and a counselor to help get to the root of the student’s issue.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 27 June 2024
  • According to psychologists at the Cleveland Clinic, the human brain is hard-wired to feel freaked out and have fun at the same time.
    — Gwen Rockwood The Rockwood Files, arkansasonline.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • One case — that of psychologist Mark Kilmer — led to a conviction.
    — Hannah Dreyfus, ProPublica, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The show also stars Fred Armisen as Ellis' live-in psychologist.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Cousins let the cameras inside his sessions with the team psychologist.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • Some guys work hard with performance psychologists and therapy to get there, and a lot of guys arrive there through their faith.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Every day between 10 and 20 women phone in to the station to seek advice from on-air doctors and psychologists about how to cope with life in Afghanistan, Aman said.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Erik broke down and confessed to his psychologist, who told his mistress Judalon Smyth.
    — Vulture, 1 May 2023
  • The family fled to Albania, where psychologists in a refugee camp encouraged the boy to draw.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 2 May 2024
  • Child psychologists are still not fully convinced one way or the other.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Met a Catholic psychologist named Julie and married her in a ceremony that combined both of their faiths.
    — Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Art is a Safe Space Your producer is also a psychologist, a mentor, a friend, a teacher.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Our first essay is from Tania Davidson, a psychologist who loves the outdoors and has spent years backpacking.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Ricky Martin said his father, a psychologist, was one of the people who encouraged him to come out publicly as gay.
    — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • With women banned from gyms and many parks, some psychologists are encouraging girls to turn to art workshops.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • Theory of Mind Among psychologists, there’s a term for that: theory of mind.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • But then, about six months later, police got a tip from an unlikely source: the girlfriend of a psychologist who Lyle and Erik Menendez had been talking to.
    — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The team and psychologist, Dr. Hillary Cauthen, later settled the lawsuit.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The psychologist and her mother sat in for her police interview.
    — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Plante, the California psychologist, said the easiest way to avoid a meltdown is to change your mindset.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Both the patient and the family received support from a psychologist.
    — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Think of an expert who’s a psychologist for your career, someone who’s paid a retainer for a period of time to tee you up for long-term success.
    — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Both habits can improve the quality of your sleep, according to psychologist Iván Eguzquiza.
    — Ana Morales, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The three psychologists who assessed him after the murder did not all agree on his diagnosis.
    — Adam Carlson, ABC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • After Tuesday night, Campbell-Perkins might need a travel agent more than a psychologist.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Kip’s lawyers had arranged for a psychologist to meet with him regularly at the juvenile jail.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • In a final post, dated Saturday, the day of the shooting, Garcia lamented what his family might say and wrote that no psychologist would have been able to fix him.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 9 May 2023

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