How to Use professionalize in a Sentence

professionalize

verb

• The country is professionalizing the military.
• The moves were meant to build a fan culture and professionalize local teams.
  — New York Times, 30 May 2018
• One of my first acts was to professionalize our approach to funding.
  — Sierra Van Der Brug, Daily News, 4 May 2026
• The union helped to professionalize the business of tapping maple trees for their sugary sap.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 28 Nov. 2021
• There was no money to feed or house the Russian troops, much less to professionalize them.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
• That is like going back to the first principles of all of this stuff, the way that humans did it before it was professionalized.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
• The act would both professionalize the medical practice and would allow the surgery schools to use and dissect the corpses of the poor.
  — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 17 Mar. 2018
• This issue can be best addressed over time, as part of an effort to professionalize the entire armed forces of Iraq.
  — Linda S. Robinson, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019
• Only four men have done it since the Grand Slams professionalized 58 years ago.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
• Gulf countries are professionalizing their investments and no longer want to be the world’s dumb money.
  — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 19 Dec. 2025
• Reese hopes that hourly workers will become salaried employees as the field expands and professionalizes.
  — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• Look at how Finland professionalized teaching in the last 30 years.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2017
• At the same time, there was an effort made to professionalize the executive structure of Vice.
  — Lachlan Cartwright, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
• Strunk is among those in the field who argue that private capital is helping to professionalize what has long been a mom-and-pop industry.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 29 July 2022
• His goal from the get-go was to professionalize the office and increase its ability to collect and catalogue records.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• As the field started to professionalize, Klári’s coding work started to taper off.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2022
• Since becoming professionalized in the early ’90s, the hobby has come out of the woods and onto the field.
  — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• For the past two years, Caldwell’s overseen a big push to expand, professionalize and train Afghan soldiers and cops.
  — Spencer Ackerman, WIRED, 26 Sep. 2011
• Back then, in the early 1980s, the drug trade was different, not as professionalized.
  — Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
• Convincing—just like the new narrative that a military man for a chief of staff will professionalize this team of knife-wielding infants.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 3 Aug. 2017
• On paper, Lutsenko seemed the man to professionalize the justice system.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• But for at least two decades—as the marathon has professionalized, and the world record dropped to within a few minutes of two hours—there has been a debate about if, or when, the mark could be broken.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2019
• The city has for years sought to professionalize the ranks of interventionists, providing new oversight and training.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
• But the challenge is professionalizing it.
  — Jenn Nelson, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Collegial car vibes For many of the program’s students, the schooling offers a chance to professionalize their passion.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
• Billionaire Michele Kang has made a splash in women’s sports with her goal of professionalizing women’s soccer.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2025
• That is, unless ongoing, face-to-face diplomacy is strengthened and professionalized.
  — Anthony Wanis-St John, The Conversation, 10 July 2026
• But the founders are sensitive to the criticisms of the platform and the need to further professionalize the operation in line with its rapid growth and newfound prominence.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
• Forensic science — the kind that traces the grooves in bullets, the mark of a shoe, or the scrape of a tool — emerged in the early 20th century as a way to professionalize police work.
  — Michelle Legro, Longreads, 9 Feb. 2018
• There had been only four previous deaths in the line of duty since the city’s fire department had been professionalized in the early 1890s.
  — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Dec. 2017