Thesaurus results for PROFESSOR

professor

noun

as in doctor

a teacher especially of the highest rank at a college or university a professor of chemistry Professor Williams will be teaching the class.

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Recent Examples of professor The ambiguity around the word’s origins stems at least partly from a centuries-long moral panic over it, says Michael Adams, an English professor at Indiana University Bloomington who has written about swearing. —

Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026 If the war does not last much longer, food prices may not go up, Peter Zaleski, an economics professor at Villanova University, told Fortune. —

Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026 There have been five others since the mid-1800s in that area, noted Gary Griggs, a distinguished professor of Earth Sciences at UC Santa Cruz. —

Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026 The answer is waiting for us at a dining-room table in 1990s New Haven, Connecticut, where a professor tinkers with a light meter. —

Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for professor

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Noun

So far, he's picked up and dropped off about ten people, taking them to anything from doctor's appointments to haircuts.

— Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
In simpler language, doctors located the arteries feeding the prostate gland using dye injected into the blood, then partially blocked the blood flow to diminish the prostate.

— Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026