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  • noun Plural form of optometrist.

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Examples

  • They also tracked 44,548 male health-care professionals (such as optometrists and veterinarians) between 1986 and 2006.

    Study Examines Sugar 2010

  • The optometrists all have the title "doctor" before their names -- even if most wear bare-midriff, faux-Juicy-Couture t-shirts under their lab coats and sport blue perma-tint lashes.

    Dan Bucatinsky: I Can See Clearly Now Dan Bucatinsky 2011

  • LUBBOCK, Texas—As one of the few optometrists in this West Texas town, J.

    Framing a Young Rocker: The Man Who Picked Glasses for Buddy Holly Charles Passy 2011

  • Even its emphases on racial diversity is entirely constructed and absurd: Latin Americans add an accent and a trill and they become victimized Chicanos; one-half African-Americans claim they are more people of color than much darker Punjabis; the children of Asian optometrists seek minority and victim status.

    Notable 2010

  • Physicians, chiropractors, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists, psychiatrists and most hospitals were made eligible to receive the incentive payments.

    The Center for Public Integrity: Excluded groups want in on health information technology funding The Center for Public Integrity 2011

  • You can consider how the lower court in Williamson v. Lee Optical (unfortunately not available on lineThanks to a reader for the Google Scholar link), which adopted a presumption of constitutionality, analyzed the rationality of statutory restrictions on opticians who were competing with ophthalmologists and optometrists.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » This is what courts defer to? 2010

  • Last year, the government fired none of its 3,000 meteorologists, 2,500 health insurance administrators, 1,000 optometrists, 800 historians or 500 industrial property managers.

    Some federal workers more likely to die than lose jobs 2011

  • A colleague and I published a couple of articles relating to vision and the watching of football matches in an optometrists' journal, writes Dr Peter Howarth, from the Visual Ergonomics Research Group at Loughborough University.

    Which footballers have produced their own food and drink? 2011

  • But other products are mainly designed for users in the developing world, where optometrists aren't widely available; they are meant to be adjusted once by the user to correct the focus at a given distance and then set that way.

    A Different Kind of Eyeglasses Michael Totty 2010

  • This may not sound like a lot of users when you think about general social networking sites like Twitter, but in reality it represents 1/4 to 1/3 of ALL optometrists in the United States, and it is a highly targeted, sought-after population.

    Personal Frustration tinged with Professional Happiness 2009

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