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That said, analysts say not to dismiss the downside risk just yet.—Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 31 May 2025 The analyst also weighed in on how bitcoin prices could behave over the coming months based on the digital asset’s market history.—Charles Lloyd Bovaird Ii, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025 But the blowback from Musk’s time in Washington has some analysts and investors worried.—Bernard Condon, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2025 Musk had used some of that money, in 2022, to acquire Twitter (now called X) at what many analysts mocked as a ripoff price, only to leverage the platform’s ability to corral attention into immense political power.—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 30 May 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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