noun
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a conspiracy theorist (= someone who believes in a particular conspiracy )
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Conspiracy theorists believe that Princess Diana’s death was not an accident.
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■ ADJECTIVE
classical
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Active citizenship is still an ideal, but we must not lose the vision of the classical theorists , regarding participatory democracy.
economic
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Advertising used to make economic theorists uncomfortable.
great
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The great Social-Contract theorists of the Enlightenment therefore explicitly excluded women from their systems.
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If Nivelle de la Chaussee was the great playwright of sentimental comedy, then Denise Diderot was the great theorist .
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Two of the greatest theorists were Sigmund Freud, born in 1856, and Carl Jung, born in 1875.
marxist
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There is clearly some truth in this, but elite and Marxist theorists would not be very impressed with it.
modern
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The now voluminous literature on modernism and postmodernism has been dominated by philosophers and modern language theorists and historians of architecture.
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The doctrine is, I take it, one from which a modern theorist can hardly escape, or hardly wishes to.
other
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A number of other social theorists as well have attributed power to structures in modernity.
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For other theorists such as William Morris, the concept of work is not considered negatively.
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A particular theorist may argue with the interpretations of other conspiracy theorists, because by no means all theorists agree with one another.
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But, for Jacques Lacan and other psychoanalytic theorists , the project to discover the real face remains a fantasy.
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The deconstruction of narrative as a natural or unproblematic activity was to be amplified by several other literary theorists .
political
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This requires the intense work of international political theorists in relation to the creation of a legislative process for international law.
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She had become the political theorist .
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The last has for a long time been the argument most favoured by political theorists .
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These questions are being asked now not just by political theorists , although some of them are giving the most considered answers.
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Historians and political theorists have another approach.
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Only in recent times have political theorists imagined that an obligation can be founded independently of such a relationship.
radical
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The more technocratic radical elite theorists see the legal system as part of the growth of elites based upon monopolies of knowledge.
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The radical elite theorists emphasized that popular participation is perfectly feasible, but collusion between elite groups prevents it from being established.
social
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A number of other social theorists as well have attributed power to structures in modernity.
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Conservative social theorist Thomas Sowell maintains that the essential difference between liberals and conservatives is optimism about the human condition.
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By contrast, social representation theorists examine the social functioning of anchoring.
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Nevertheless, a social theorist has to start somewhere.
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At present the social representation theorists illustrate how we cast our anchors.
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This is now a fashionable field commanding the attention of very prominent social theorists .
■ NOUN
conspiracy
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But two or three unusual features of last week's cut fired the imagination of New York's conspiracy theorists .
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But conspiracy theorists have argued over the years that Oswald was an agent manipulated by Moscow.
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And politicians will never yield turf to them. Conspiracy theorists blame internal rivalries between municipal-bond and corporate-finance folk.
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Like our late twentieth-century conspiracy theorists , Dooner starts with a few facts, disguising his fiction as straight social history.
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A particular theorist may argue with the interpretations of other conspiracy theorists, because by no means all theorists agree with one another.
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The conspiracy theorists might have a point.
dependency
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In any case, for the dependency theorists , development did not necessarily mean Western-style industrialisation.
management
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For years, management theorists have been telling companies to shrink.
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Some of the relevant work of management theorists is reviewed in this chapter.
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A number of theorists have identified precursors of photography in the late eighteenth century.
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Behavioural theorists add that tall structures impose rigid supervision and control and therefore block initiative and ruin the motivation of subordinates.
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Conspiracy theorists might guess that Brown has Polaroids of Wilson in a compromising position.
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Film theorists first put forward the proposition that the construction of the spectator in mainstream cinema is gendered.
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Like our late twentieth-century conspiracy theorists, Dooner starts with a few facts, disguising his fiction as straight social history.
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Modernisation theorists too thought that the peasantry, through the diffusion of modern ideas and consumer goods, would develop out of existence.
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The organizational theorists who have championed the matrixing approach candidly label it an organizational overlay.
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This is no new thought and many theorists, although moving from quite different assumptions, could readily give assent.