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Recent Examples of professorial
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.
—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
In academia, Soyinka has held professorial and visiting positions at universities around the world.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
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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.
—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
In academia, Soyinka has held professorial and visiting positions at universities around the world.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
Adjective
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This pedagogical vision of democratic cooperation between students and teachers resulted in much successful collaboration.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
5 May 2026
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Church’s landscapes themselves had pedagogical intent, and the lessons were not just scientific but ethical, spiritual, patriotic.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
Adjective
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Novak emphasized that some of today’s biggest literature advocates are bookish celebrities, who aren’t afraid to share their passion for reading in different ways.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
15 May 2026
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Their mother is obsessed with marrying all the girls off, but has seemingly decided that bookish, sensible Mary isn’t worth the energy.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
6 May 2026
Adjective
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Though serious, Parsons’ handsomeness prevents him from looking stereotypically nerdy.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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Six years ago, Orbitkey, known at the time mainly for their clever (and sometimes nerdy) key organizers, made a leap out of pockets and onto desktops.—
Anthony Karcz,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2026
Adjective
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The team also captured the women’s scholastic championship.—
Chris Hays,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 May 2026
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When not identified early, this can potentially derail a student’s scholastic trajectory from the very first days of school.—
Sherri Helvie,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Much of it is donnish intellectual history, full of interesting but digressive discussions.—
Jeffrey Collins,
WSJ,
5 Oct. 2018
Adjective
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The individual who once grappled with learning disabilities emerged into a scholarly critical thinker.—
Jason Jones,
New York Times,
10 May 2026
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For most of his life, Mojtaba was not regarded as a religious scholar of significant theological authority or scholarly distinction.—
Hamidreza Azizi,
Time,
9 May 2026
Adjective
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Analysts have tried to forecast how much academic carnage will result from this demographic bind.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
19 May 2026
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In a stunning rebuke, the Board of Governors rejected his appointment, forcing UF to restart the search and deepening concerns among faculty and alumni that ideological alignment now outweighs academic credentials in Florida university leadership.—
Garrett Shanley,
Miami Herald,
18 May 2026
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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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