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Recent Examples of professorial
Advertisement To be clear, academic freedom is too often seen as a narrow prerogative of the professorial class.
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Nicholas Dirks, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
The voice turned more professorial, clinical.
—Jon Michael Varese, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2025
The man was alone and smartly dressed in a button-down shirt, khaki pants and professorial eyeglasses.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
The picturesque front porches that define the town are abuzz with energetic cottagers who punctuate their days with cooking lessons, nature walks, yoga, professorial lectures, music and plays.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
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Nicholas Dirks, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
The voice turned more professorial, clinical.
—Jon Michael Varese, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2025
The man was alone and smartly dressed in a button-down shirt, khaki pants and professorial eyeglasses.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
The picturesque front porches that define the town are abuzz with energetic cottagers who punctuate their days with cooking lessons, nature walks, yoga, professorial lectures, music and plays.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
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Washington and Lee has accordingly established a modern reputation for intellectual pluralism and pedagogical excellence.—
Blake D. Morant,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Nadjari oversaw the development of the studio’s proprietary workflows, while Ricca, who has built education curricula and large-scale experiential projects, shaped the platform’s emotional and pedagogical framework.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Skyler Trepel,
PEOPLE,
19 Jan. 2026
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There’s no shortage of young women making confessional, wry pop music these days, but Hobert has carved out her own lane with a bookish persona and shrewdly specific lyrics bound in tidy and broadly appealing pop songs.—
Carrie Battan,
Vulture,
15 Jan. 2026
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Cookie Fleck and her nerdy husband, Gerry (Levy), are the underdogs of the lot.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Jan. 2026
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Some of them look nerdy, some do not.—
Caryn James,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Jan. 2026
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At the heart of this debate seems to be both a misunderstanding of the point of scholastic sports and a view, at least by some, that trans girls have an unfair physical advantage.—
Peter Jensen,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Jan. 2026
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In a white paper released in October, the committee recommends moving the men’s game, and perhaps the women’s, from the current fall-only schedule to one that covers the entire scholastic year and culminates in an April playoff festival.—
Luke Cyphers,
Sportico.com,
12 Dec. 2025
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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.—
Joshua Hunt,
New York Times,
12 June 2024
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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.—
Rachel Tashjian,
Harper's BAZAAR,
8 Dec. 2022
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Much of it is donnish intellectual history, full of interesting but digressive discussions.—
Jeffrey Collins,
WSJ,
5 Oct. 2018
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The fact that Katherine had been institutionalized may have tainted her scholarly reputation.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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Brown-Grier argued that this knowledge gap is not just a scholarly problem but a governance one.—
Marybeth Gasman,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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When boys are asked to show up consistently for real people, academic readiness and emotional readiness develop side by side.—
Dr. Liz Doe Stone,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Meyer studied international relations with a minor in history, and she was named to the PAC-12’s academic honor roll twice.—
Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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