Synonyms for scopes
skoʊpsscopes

Princeton's WordNet

1. Scopes, John Scopes, John Thomas Scopesnoun

   Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970)

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1. • Schoolteacher

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1. List of paraphrases for "scopes":

   alcances, areas, fields

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How to use scopes in a sentence?

1. Cori Ofstead:

   Scopes get highly contaminated every time they're used.

2. David Feinberg:

   What we have done at UCLA today has already changed the discussion nationally about these scopes, when something like this happens, it really gets us in our gut.

3. William Maisel:

   In 2009 we weren't aware of outbreaks of multi-drug resistant bacteria in these scopes happening when proper cleaning was followed.

4. Richard Maloon:

   Anyone who believes in intelligent design is going to make us the laughingstock of the world and they'll call us the second (Scopes) Monkey Trial. So he's not on my radar.

5. John Allen:

   This problem has been known since at least 1987, it certainly is disturbing that a fundamental design issue with these scopes would cause problems for this long.