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In recent months, tariffs modestly contributed to the uptick in overall inflation, analysts previously told ABC News, but overall price increases owed largely to a rise in housing and food products with little connection to Trump’s levies.—Max Zahn, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025 Even though the software provider’s fiscal first-quarter earnings missed expectations, its guidance of explosive growth in the subsequent years caught analysts by surprise.—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025 Results were roughly in line with analyst expectations, though the news boosted bankers’ sentiment.—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025 Outside Notre Dame Stadium in the run-up to the Indiana game, Gillis stood with analysts Pat McAfee and Kirk Herbstreit for a segment on the pregame show.—Pete Sampson, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for analyst
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from French analyste "mathematician skilled in analysis," probably by haplology from *analysiste, from analyse or analysieanalysis + -iste-ist entry 1
Note:
French analyste would appear to be a derivative of analyser, a counterpart to analyze in English, but the French verb is apparently attested several decades later than the agent noun.
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