1
: openly and freely declared or acknowledged : affirmed
2
: professing to be qualified
also
: expert
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Examples of professed in a Sentence
He is a professed enemy of the king.
a professed analyst of American presidential politics
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The album artwork for Vultures II shows Ty holding a framed picture of his brother Big TC, who is currently serving a life sentence for murder despite his professed innocence.
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Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024
The professed goal was to make the presidency consistent with the party and military positions, even though the obvious reform would have been the reverse: to add term limits to those positions.
—Cai Xia, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
Still, he’s used the instruments available to him to force sanctuary-city mayors to confront the consequences of their own professed beliefs on immigration and to bait the Biden administration into making its perverse priorities at the border unmistakable.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 28 Jan. 2024
The Houthis have a tradition of fierce independence, despite the militia’s overall reliance on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its professed loyalty to Khamenei as the ultimate leader of the resistance.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2024
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Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2024
The professed goal was to make the presidency consistent with the party and military positions, even though the obvious reform would have been the reverse: to add term limits to those positions.
—Cai Xia, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
Still, he’s used the instruments available to him to force sanctuary-city mayors to confront the consequences of their own professed beliefs on immigration and to bait the Biden administration into making its perverse priorities at the border unmistakable.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 28 Jan. 2024
The Houthis have a tradition of fierce independence, despite the militia’s overall reliance on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its professed loyalty to Khamenei as the ultimate leader of the resistance.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2024
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“Professed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/professed. Accessed 19 Sep. 2024.
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professed
adjective
pro·fessed
prə-ˈfest 
1
: openly declared
failed in its professed task
2
: claiming to be qualified
a professed expert
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