as in adept
having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor
a professed analyst of American presidential politics
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as in pretended
to present a false appearance of
professed friendship while secretly plotting revenge
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as in declared
to state clearly and strongly
the lonely woman professed her love in a series of letters to the soldier
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as in alleged
to state as a fact usually forcefully
he professed his innocence to anyone who would listen
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Recent Examples of professed
Robert G. Eccles, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Lukashenko, a professed teetotaler, raised a toast of vodka and urged his American guest to drink.
—Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024
That professed confidence in each’s own instincts and indifference to most dissident opinions is how both led the country and made some pretty colossal missteps.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
Similarly, in terms of professed ideology the numbers are 70% for Liberals, 40% for Moderates, 12% for Conservatives.
—Robert G. Eccles, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Lukashenko, a professed teetotaler, raised a toast of vodka and urged his American guest to drink.
—Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
That professed skepticism clashed with his record in office.
—Henry Farrell, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024
That professed confidence in each’s own instincts and indifference to most dissident opinions is how both led the country and made some pretty colossal missteps.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for professed
Adjective
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No turnovers for the Patriots, who have become adept at protecting the football.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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The rotation, though, was never quite adept in that area at any point in the year.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Take Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola, who pretended to be this African native descended from the Lost Tribe of Israel but was actually born in Baltimore in the Jim Crow South.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
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Link then called 911 and pretended not to know who Jimenez was despite being married to him for nine years, Bergida said.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
16 Oct. 2025
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Lima, Peru Reuters — Peru’s President Jose Jeri declared on Tuesday a 30-day state of emergency in the capital Lima and the neighboring province of Callao, saying the move was to battle rising crime.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025
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Two other declared independents, both former Democrats, are also challenging Republican senators in deep red states.—
Ramsey Touchberry,
The Washington Examiner,
21 Oct. 2025
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The retail giant agreed to the settlement to resolve an antitrust lawsuit the FTC filed in 2023 where federal officials alleged Amazon coerced millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime subscriptions and then made those agreements extremely difficult to cancel.—
Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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Federal investigators have alleged Iza began communicating with Chapell’s girlfriend and relayed to Saavedra that the party planner was a drug dealer.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But Tilley's experienced eye noticed there appeared to be a signal coming down from the sky.—
Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
17 Oct. 2025
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Alan Simons is an experienced brewer who spent seven years with Backcountry Brewery in Frisco and another seven leading the beermaking at Dry Dock Brewery in Aurora.—
Justin Wingerter,
Denver Post,
16 Oct. 2025
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Since Xi Jinping assumed power in 2012, Chinese stories have increasingly included nods to Chinese nationalist (not just communist) soldiers fighting bravely, thus placing a strong, victorious, and morally righteous China at the forefront of the postwar global order.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
18 Oct. 2025
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On the play Warner got hurt, the 49ers were missing a right defensive end, and coaches mistakenly assumed practice-squad call-up Trevis Gipson stayed on the field to fill that role after racing down on kickoff coverage and making the initial hit on a tackle.—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
17 Oct. 2025
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As both Hernández and Freeman asserted, Ohtani has quite the gap between him and a mortal man, but there are four more wins the Dodgers need to earn before the storybook season can be complete.—
Gabe Smallson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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In that testimony, Baccarelli asserted that taking the drug during pregnancy was not just linked to neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism but probably caused them.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
16 Oct. 2025
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Still, the bride-to-be insisted that her wedding is about her and her fiancé, not her sister’s relationship drama.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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Daniels insisted the impact of the shutdown on air traffic controllers was not just insular and would continue to impact the aviation sector and broader American economy.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Professed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professed. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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