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Recent Examples of professorial
Learning to Engage McMillon has an almost professorial air that’s articulate, polite and exudes competence — but his skill set was honed by long years of experience.
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Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
3 Feb. 2026
Gabriel has secrets hiding beneath his professorial veneer.
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Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Jan. 2026
Hughes is a partner with the law firm Epstein Becker Green and a professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School.
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Richard Hughes Iv,
STAT,
12 Jan. 2026
Navarro, long rejected and unelected, made no attempt to set professorial boundaries in his new advisory role.
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Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
3 Feb. 2026
Gabriel has secrets hiding beneath his professorial veneer.
—
Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Jan. 2026
Hughes is a partner with the law firm Epstein Becker Green and a professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School.
—
Richard Hughes Iv,
STAT,
12 Jan. 2026
Navarro, long rejected and unelected, made no attempt to set professorial boundaries in his new advisory role.
—
Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
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In Britain between the 1940s and the 1980s, university professors, especially those from Oxford and Cambridge, were esteemed not merely for their specialist knowledge or pedagogical value but for their wider contribution to civic life.
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Program partners include the Durban FilmMart Institute and Central Film School, which in its role as advisory partner supports the program’s pedagogical approach and monitoring and evaluation processes.
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Daeron Targaryen Daeron Targaryen, otherwise known as Daeron the Drunkard, is a bookish and melancholy Targaryen prince known for his prophetic dreams.
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The novel follows Harriet Bancroft, a bookish wallflower compiling a dictionary of slang.
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As niche and nerdy as the premise sounds, audiences gradually allowed Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki to teach them about dark matter and the inner workings of Star Trek.
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The firm was a nerdy, all-hours place.
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The Union’s move is a small reversal of a decades-long trend away from scholastic sports as a soccer development tool.
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Her work — rooted in teaching, scholastic research and mentoring — is continually focused on advancing social, racial and economic equity in secondary education classrooms.
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As men's wear grew less formal, Woody Allen would stake a claim on baggy khaki and corduroy as the uniform of a tweedy, tightly wound New Yorker.
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Her clothes, increasingly, have a pragmatic femininity, like a number of tweedy bellbottom suits that opened the show, some with vests of blue and coral beads covering the front, or diamond patterns of turquoise and plum sequins on the sleeves.
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Much of it is donnish intellectual history, full of interesting but digressive discussions.
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According to Mercy Fash and Emani Campbell’s emerging scholarly research at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, this intersection is worthy of greater attention because of an exacerbated threat that could severely harm Black women.
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The women had been close friends while studying for their doctorates some years earlier, but Catherine has since grown resentful of Leonora’s career, and dismissive of women whose scholarly ambitions come before marital subservience.
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Priya Bhardwaj does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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Students credit Burgess with helping shape not only their academic growth but also their confidence and character.
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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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