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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Beath attempted to get the adept electrician to comment on the crash.—
Mark Gray,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
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This year, job advertisements have been soaring for a new specialist software developer who can write code, but also is adept at talking to customers.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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Donna recently moved to Orlando, to Bennie's chagrin – who has pretended not to remember her name.—
Laura Trujillo,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Prosecutors said Montejano pretended to be a teenage boy on Snapchat, asked the girls to meet him in a public area at the apartment complex before forcing the girls into his apartment.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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During that entire time, the fans demanded Harrison be fired and pundits declared that the Mavericks had just made a potentially franchise killing move.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
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His three-day trial in October ended with a hung jury, and 4th District Judge Patrick Miller declared a mistrial.—
Shannon Tyler,
Idaho Statesman,
11 Nov. 2025
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Suharto, who is also the current leader’s father-in-law, came to power following brutal bloodletting in 1965 in which at least half a million people alleged to be communists were killed, and critics point to widespread reports of torture and forced disappearances through to his overthrow in 1998.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
11 Nov. 2025
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The complaint alleged a violation of departmental policy regarding the use of force.—
Emerson Clarridge
Updated November 11,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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No army in history seemed ever to have been more ragged and motley and mongrel and polyglot than the Continental, rich and poor, learned and illiterate, from boys to old men, skilled and unskilled, born all over the world, speaking dozens of languages, believing in different gods and in no god.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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China is increasingly leading the US as the center of global research, and cuts and restrictions on skilled migration are hampering Washington’s fightback.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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More recently, Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing populist who assumed office in 2019, got along famously with the similarly minded Trump during the last two years of the American president’s first term.—
Ron Kampeas,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Nov. 2025
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When preparing to host Thanksgiving, it's assumed that hand towels are going to be a necessity in both the kitchen, powder room, and guest bathrooms.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
7 Nov. 2025
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Stars asserted dominion over their kingdom, their names airbrushed on walls (Bow Wow) and etched into marble floors (Missy Elliott).—
Kim Hew-Low,
The Atlantic,
10 Nov. 2025
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The settlement agreement also includes a provision that Sholes pay an existing medical lien asserted by the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.—
Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
7 Nov. 2025
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Again, Shamblin messaged, this time removing the mention of the gun; again, the bot insisted a human was coming.—
Adam Carlson,
PEOPLE,
11 Nov. 2025
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Lima insisted that the public backs a tougher stance and that the vast majority of favela residents supported the operation.—
Alessandra Freitas,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Professed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professed. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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